Today I will look at the NoSQL concept and specifically Amazon’s DynamoDB.
NoSQL stands for “No SQL”, which means you don’t use SQL (Structured Query Language) to manage the database. Data is not arranged into relational tables (with relational indices that point to other tables), but is arranged in a variety of data models, including document, graph, key-value, and columnar.
NoSQL was born because of the need for scalability and performance. In the early 2000s it was discovered that relational databases do not scale well at a reasonable cost.
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