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Ep. 56 Modern Databases, Feds, Flexibility

March 23, 2023

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In the early days of the Internet, companies would design databases that could handle what they perceived as tremendous amounts of information.  Memory was expensive, so those databases were optimized to handle related pieces of information, or relational databases. They relied on a system that used structured data language to pull up information.

It got to the point where two or three companies dominated all large systems. They became so ubiquitous that companies like Microsoft would acknowledge the dominance of Oracle by using it to manage Microsoft customer names.  

The past fifteen years have seen memory get cheap, and virtualization has made storage a minor concern.  Combining this with mountains of unstructured data being generated with sensors, phones, and occupational technology, new databases had to evolve. 

One way to break through the constraint of a relational database is with a way to approach that that goes beyond Structured Query Language, or “Not only Structured Query Language.”  MongoDB is an example of a database classified as NoSQL.   Some have classified this as an object-oriented database.  

"Whereas in a no SQL database system with a flexible schema, you can make changes on the fly"

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When comparing them, some will argue that a SQL database is better when one has many writes; and a No SQL is faster when it comes to reads.  Like anything, it is best to carefully evaluate your needs and select a system that fits your set of requirements.

MongoDB is an example of this No SQL approach. During the interview, Brent Leech provides an overview of why MongoDB has the performance characteristics that will serve as the answer to many federal data management goals. 

The federal government is presented with many data handling
challenges – they have vast repositories of structured data as well as daily accumulating unstructured amounts of information. The more you know about databases the better you will be at evaluating appropriate systems. 

If you enjoyed this article, you may want to listen to Ep. 50 Data Storage Strategies for Complex Federal Systems

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