A Study of NoSQL Database for Enterprises

Popularization of big data makes the enterprise need to store more and more data. The enterprise's database must access data as fast as possible, but RDB has the speed limitation due to the join operation. Many enterprises have changed to use NoSQL database which can meet the requirement of fast data access. However, there are more than hundreds of NoSQL databases. It is important to select a suitable NoSQL database for a certain enterprise because this decision will affect the performance of the enterprise operations. In this paper, 15 categories of NoSQL databases will be analysed to find out the characteristics of every category. Some principles are proposed to choose an appropriate NoSQL database for different types of enterprises.