Introduction to NoSQL

Course: NOSQLI

Duration: 3 Days

Level: I

Course Summary

This course introduces the basic concepts and fundamental principles of NoSQL. Students will learn about the lifecycle, and adoption of NoSQL technologies. This course will help students understand the NoSQL landscape and classification of a variety of products and packages in the market such as MongoDB. They will learn about the reference architecture and platform stack. Students will also learn to identify the key features, benefits, impacts and use cases of NoSQL databases. They will be able to understand the terms and best practices related to NoSQL and recognize key considerations and tradeoffs, which should be kept in mind, while designing NoSQL data stores in a systematic fashion.

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Topics Covered In This Course

NoSQL: What It Is and Why It Is Needed

Definition and Introduction
Sorted Ordered Column-Oriented Stores
Key/Value Stores
Document Databases
Graph Databases

Getting Initial Hands-on Experience

First Impressions ? Examining Two Simple Examples
Working with Language Bindings

Interfacing and Interacting with NoSQL

If No SQL, Then What?
Language Bindings for NoSQL Data Stores

Understanding the Storage Architecture

Working with Column-Oriented Databases
HBase Distributed Storage Architecture
Document Store Internals
Understanding Key/Value Stores in Memcached and Redis
Eventually Consistent Non-relational Databases

Performing CRUD Operations

Creating Records
Accessing Data
Updating and Deleting Data

Querying NoSQL Stores

Similarities Between SQL and MongoDB Query Features
Accessing Data from Column-Oriented Databases Like HBase
Querying Redis Data Stores

Modifying Data Stores and Managing Evolution

Changing Document Databases
Schema Evolution in Column-Oriented Databases
HBase Data Import and Export
Data Evolution in Key/Value Stores

Indexing and Ordering Data Sets

Essential Concepts Behind a Database Index
Indexing and Ordering in MongoDB
Creating and Using Indexes in MongoDB
Indexing and Ordering in CouchDB
Indexing in Apache Cassandra

Managing Transactions and Data Integrity

RDBMS AND ACID
Distributed ACID Systems
Upholding CAP
Consistency Implementations in a Few NoSQL Products

Scalable Parallel Processing with MapReduce

Understanding MapReduce
MapReduce with HBase
MapReduce Possibilities and Apache Mahout

Analyzing Big Data with Hive

Hive Basics
Back to Movie Ratings
Good Old SQL
JOIN(s) in Hive QL

Surveying Database Internals

MongoDB Internals
Membase Architecture
Hypertable Under the Hood
Apache Cassandra
Berkeley DB

Choosing Among NoSQL Flavors

Comparing NoSQL Products
Benchmarking Performance
Contextual Comparison

Coexistence

Using MySQL as a NoSQL Solution
Mostly Immutable Data Stores
Web Frameworks and NoSQL
Migrating from RDBMS to NoSQL

Performance Tuning

Goals of Parallel Algorithms
Influencing Equations
Partitioning
Scheduling in Heterogeneous Environments
Additional MapReduce Tuning
HBase Coprocessors
Leveraging Bloom Filters

Tools and Utilities

RRDTool
Nagios
Scribe
Flume
Chukwa
Pig
Nodetool
OpenTSDB
Solandra
Hummingbird and C5t
GeoCouch
Alchemy Database
Webdis

What You Can Expect

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

Understand the foundational aspects of NoSQL
Explain an end-to-end lifecycle model for strategic adoption
Explain NoSQL products and packages
Walk through a reference architecture with a platform stack
Understand the basic and advanced methods for NoSQL solutions
Explain emerging disciplines

Who Should Take This Course

This course is designed for solution architects, systems analysts, systems engineers, and IT managers who are interested in utilizing NoSQL technologies within their organizations.

Recommended Prerequisites

Basic understanding and familiarity of information systems and development are desired.

Additional knowledge on system development lifecycle and data-intensive applications will be helpful.

Training Style

Instructor led with 60% lecture and 40% lab.

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Related Courses

Code	Course Title	Duration	Level
BIGDATI	Introduction To "Big Data" Technologies	2 Days	I	Details
MNGDEV	MongoDB Application Development	5 Days	I	Details
HDPDEV	Introduction to Hadoop Development	5 Days	II	Details
HDPENT	Real World Hadoop in the Enterprise	5 Days	II	Details
NOSQLD	NOSQL for Developers	5 Days	II	Details

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