THE VIDEO SHELF · nosql databases
Introduction to NoSQL • Martin Fowler • GOTO 2012
Martin Fowler's GOTO 2012 introduction to NoSQL databases: where they came from, their data models, how consistency thinking differs, and when to use them. He argues they won't make relational databases obsolete and introduces polyglot persistence.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN repeatedly recommends it as a balanced, beginner-friendly overview of SQL versus NoSQL, and some teachers assign it to students.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- GOTO Conferences
- Topic
- nosql databases
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 6
- HN mentions in dataset
- 10
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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First, the "Mother of all Demos" by Doug Engelbart: [LINK] This was in 1968, at a time when most people thought about computers as being machines for solving computation problems, like processing payrolls or calculating rocket trajectories. Engelbart and his students had the radical idea …
joeclark77 on Hacker News · 2016-10
In Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?As a starting point, if you have little background in NoSQL, I strongly recommend this 1 hour talk by Martin Fowler: [VIDEO] It's slightly dated, but it still gives a strong overview of the different paradigms. The truth is what you want to learn probably …
WoodenChair on Hacker News · 2017-10
In Ask HN: Learning NoSQL, papers and books[VIDEO] In this video Martin Fowler have some recommendations of when to choose a relational, graph or noSql database.
alfonsodev on Hacker News · 2015-06
In Ask HN: When should i use a NoSql database
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