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No SQL: Where Are Transactions and Joins?

📅 2016-08-29

Unless you’ve been living in a cave these past few years, we’ve all heard about, encountered, and even used NoSQL databases. Although they are easily accessible, these databases quickly confront us with a paradigm shift that challenges our minds shaped by relational databases.

This presentation will focus on using databases without transactions and without joins. Are these two pillars of relational databases that we’ve been using for years really the great absentees from the NoSQL world?

To answer this question, we’ll talk about data modeling, denormalization, and the real world.