Relational Database
This lesson introduces relational databases; it, goes over their advantages, uses, and the problems related to them.
We'll cover the following...
Introduction
Today we are facing a rapid expansion of data-driven businesses, especially businesses that are web-based and have an enormous amount of data being transferred every second. In fact, almost 90% of all data on the web has been created in the last several years. Usually this data has to be stored in a database. However, since every business is different, there are different needs that need to be taken into account when looking at ways to store the data. There are two routes we can take:
- Relational Databases
- NoSQL
Further on, you will cover the strengths and weaknesses of both, but it will largely focus on NoSQL databases and why we need to consider them as a solution to our problems.
Relational Databases
The concept of relational database concept was first proposed in 1970 by Edgar F. Codd and has been ruling our world since the mid-1980s. Somewhere in the ’90s concepts like ...