Introduction to NoSQL Databases

• Consistency versus availability
• ACID guarantees
• Hash versus range partition
• In-place updates versus appends
• Row versus column versus column-family storage models
• Strongly versus loosely enforced schemas

MongoDB persistance

• Installing MongoDB
• MongoDB data types
• The MongoDB database
• Data models in MongoDB

MongoDB Performance and failover

• MongoDB indexing
• Replication
• Automatic failover in replication
• Sharded clusters
• Storing large data in MongoDB

Introduction to Redis

• Key features of Redis
• Performance
• Tunable data durability
• Publish/Subscribe
• Useful data types
• Expiring data over time
• Counters
• Appropriate use cases for Redis
• Data durability
• Simple data model

Data modeling and application design with Redis

• Queues
• Sets
• Notifications
• Counters
• Caching
• Redis anti-patterns
• Backup with Redis
• Restoring from a backup

Cassandra

• Introduction to Cassandra
• What problems does Cassandra solve?
• What are the key features of Cassandra?
• No single point of failure
• Tunable consistency
• Linear scalability
• Appropriate use cases for Cassandra

Overview of Cassandra internals

• Data modeling in Cassandra
• Partition keys
• Clustering keys
• Optimal use cases
• Cassandra anti-patterns