NOSQL Landscape

In a schema-less landscape of big data storage, Not-Only-SQL solutions appear in four general categories, distinguished by volume capacity and modeling capability:

Key-Value

• volume: extremely high
• modeling: low
• for: data slices
• the rivers

Column Family

• volume: very high
• modeling: moderate
• for: flat categorized data
• the roads

Document Store

• volume: high
• modeling: high
• for: isolated semi-structured data
• the forests

Graph Database

• volume: high
• modeling: very high
• for: whole-data systems
• the cities and towns