SQL vs noSQL Databases

System Design

17-10-2020 • 30 mins

Breaking away from the interview format, Wes and Kevin deep dive into SQL vs noSQL databases.

Show notes:

ACID compliance - https://mariadb.com/resources/blog/acid-compliance-what-it-means-and-why-you-should-care

CAP theorem
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/cap-theorem
https://mwhittaker.github.io/blog/an_illustrated_proof_of_the_cap_theorem
Cool article explaining the problem with saying you can have 2 out of 3 properties of CAP
http://martin.kleppmann.com/2015/05/11/please-stop-calling-databases-cp-or-ap.html

MongoDB - https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/introduction/