Week 5 - Document Stores

Question 1

Document Store

Answer 1

Document Store is a database that uses a document-oriented model to store data.

Document store databases store each record and its associated data within a single document. Each document contains semi-structured data that can be queried against using various query and analytics tools of the DBMS.

Question 2

what is BSON

Answer 2

Binary version of json

Question 3

Does Document storage have referential integrity?

Answer 3

No

Question 4

3 Advantages of Document storage

Answer 4

1) Documents are independent units (fasht
2) Application logic is easy to write (not sql queries)
3) Unstructured data is easy to store

Question 5

Disadvantages of Document storage

Answer 5

1) no joins
2) no referential integrity
3) SQL (not easy to integrate with an SQL app)