WEEK 8 : NoSQL

Question 1

What is NoSQL?

Answer 1

A category of DBMS that provide a scalable and flexible approach to storing and achieving data, especially large amounts of structured and unstructured data.

Question 2

What are the characteristics of NoSQL?

Answer 2

Flexible data models, horizontal scalability and high availability.

Question 3

What is JSON?

Answer 3

A lightweight, text based data interchange format used for structuring and representing data.

Question 4

What is JSON used for?

Answer 4

Transmitting data between a server and web application.

Question 5

What are the characteristics of JSON?

Answer 5

Data structure, human readable, language agnostic, lightweight and supported data types.

Question 6

What are the NoSQL data based model types?

Answer 6

Document based, key value Stores, column family and graph.

Question 7

What is Document Based Model?

Answer 7

The storing and structuring of data as self-contained documents.

Question 8

What are the characteristics of document based?

Answer 8

Flexible schema, documents collection and fields and values.