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Nested Entities and calculation on leaf entity property - SQL or NoSQL approach

I am working on a hobby project called Menu/Recipe Management. This is how my entities and their relations look like. A Nutrient has properties Code and Value An Ingredient has a collection of ...
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4answers
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Weaknesses with different types of NoSQL databases

Here's my question: What are the weaknesses with different types of NoSQL databases? Specifically, what're the weaknesses of key-value stores, graph data stores and document stores? I've had an easy ...
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1answer
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How much does the data model affect scalability and performance in so called “NoSQL” database?

You can't ever have a talk about so called "NoSQL" database without bringing the CAP theorem (Consistency, Availability, Partition : pick two). If you have to pick say, between MongoDB (Partition, ...
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3answers
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Storing n-gram data

(hopefully I landed on the right stack exchange site) I was hoping to brainstorm a little bit on the subject of storing n-gram data. In my project, I am trying to solve linguistic problems where I ...
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2answers
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Why NoSQL over SQL? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: When would someone use MongoDB (or similar) over traditional RDMS? How well the SQL and NoSQL go head-to-head. I read somewhere that SQL databases are not well for data ...
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4answers
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Typed search over complex model. Possible CQRS / NoSQL solution

Given the following relational model: I need to implement a typed search for hotels, which should be able to query on name, city, country, category, hoteltype, roomprice, customtype, room custom ...
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2answers
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How to correctly design NoSql database schema? [closed]

I would like to learn something more about NoSQL databases, so I've chosen to create a new project from scratch to handle football results. In my traditional relational database, I have tournaments, ...
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2answers
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Why OTServs have an item cloning problem if the server crashes? [closed]

OTServs are open source MMORPGs with a huge community. Mostly all of them have a serious problem: if the server crashes, people can clone items. This is a dirty trick that can be executed because the ...
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2answers
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How to represent a tree structure in NoSQL

I'm new to NoSQL and have been playing around with a personal project on the MEAN stack (Mongo ExpressJs AngularJs NodeJs). I'm building a document editor of sorts that manages nodes of data. Each ...
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1answer
505 views

NoSQL as file meta database

I am trying to implement a virtual file system structure in front of an object storage (Openstack). For availability reasons we initially chose Cassandra, however while designing file system data ...
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1answer
501 views

NoSQL (Azure Table Storage) RowKey design for ordered data

I store large quantities of GPS data in storage tables. Each partition can reach up to 1 million entities. Each GPS entity that is inserted into the table is actually sequential to the previous data ...
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1answer
81 views

Azure Storage Table design with multiple query points

I have the following Azure Storage Table. PositionData table: PartitionKey: ClientID + VehicleID RowKey: GUID Properties: ClientID, VehicleID, DriverID, Date, GPSPosition Each vehicle will log ...
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1answer
86 views

Dividing database between MySQL and NoSQL

Mine is a typical website developed with LAMP stack. Due to scalability issues we are planning to incorporate NoSQL for the application. For the implementation, we are planning to implement hybrid ...
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1answer
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Google Datastore and deep records

I'm in the beginning of creating a website that uses Google Datastore to store information related to clients and I'm curious if the record is too deep for NoSQL or if I'm fine. Essentially I'll be ...