#140 – Introduction to Document-Orientated Databases

#140 – Introduction to Document-Orientated Databases

Chris EvansDatabases, Guest Speakers, Storage Unpacked Podcast

This week, Chris and Martin speak to David Koppe, Director of Information Strategy at MongoDB. The discussion covers document-orientated databases, or simply document databases, and their appeal to the enterprise. Document databases differ from traditional relational databases in that the data is stored within each “document” as a series of key-value pairs. In this instance a document is not to be confused with a Word or PDF file. Unlike relational databases, document records don’t have to be “symmetrical” and aren’t required to contain every field (or a null value for empty fields). This makes the …

#98 – Shared Storage for Scale-out Databases with Walt Hinton from Pavilion Data

#98 – Shared Storage for Scale-out Databases with Walt Hinton from Pavilion Data

Chris EvansGuest Speakers

In this third recording from Dell Technologies World 2019, Chris talks with Walt Hinton, Head of Corporate and Product Marketing at Pavilion Data Systems.  The topic of conversation is the alignment of shared storage with scale-out NoSQL databases that typically place storage components on separate local disks. As rack-scale computing becomes more widely adopted, local storage will migrate back into bottom-of-rack shared storage infrastructure.  In this instance, does it make sense to put shards of databases back on the same hardware?  Walt thinks it is the next logical step in optimising scale-out applications and introducing …