Which Open Source (Self-hosted) NoSQL DB?
Which Open Source (self-hosted) NoSQL DB should I Test#
I have managed to solve most of the problems in my career using relational databases. However I have read that there are a few advantages of NoSQL over a relational DB.
So as always:
Don't trust, verify
Let us see what these NoSQL dbs can do
NoSQL Options#
I just did a quick search for options (and I am not using services from public cloud providers). I will use the age old popularity contest of github stars to choose:
- apache couchdb: 5.4k stars
- apache cassandra: 7.4k stars
- mongodb: 22k stars
- apache hbase: 4.6k stars
Wow, 3 apache foundation projects.
They have 26 Database projects in total.
I am going with popularity: mongodb