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Document databases provide a flexible and scalable solution for modern data management by storing data as documents, resembling JSON or XML. They offer key benefits such as scalability, performance, and adaptability while ensuring data consistency through various models like strong and eventual consistency. With applications in social media, gaming, and e-commerce, document databases are set to play a crucial role in the future of data management, particularly with emerging technologies.

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Document databases provide a flexible and scalable solution for modern data management by storing data as documents, resembling JSON or XML. They offer key benefits such as scalability, performance, and adaptability while ensuring data consistency through various models like strong and eventual consistency. With applications in social media, gaming, and e-commerce, document databases are set to play a crucial role in the future of data management, particularly with emerging technologies.

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Document Databases:

Revolutionizing Data
Management
Document databases are changing the way we store and access data, offering
a flexible and scalable solution for modern applications.

by SREEDHAR SREENIVASAN
Understanding Document Databases
Document-Oriented Schema-less
Data is stored as documents, resembling JSON or XML, providing Flexibility allows for dynamic data structures, adapting to
a natural representation for complex information. evolving application requirements without rigid schemas.
Key Features and Benefits
Scalability Performance
Easily handles large volumes of Optimized for fast data access
data and high traffic demands. and retrieval, essential for real-
time applications.

Flexibility
Adaptable data structures and schemas enable seamless development
and innovation.
Consistency in Document
Databases
Strong Consistency Eventual Consistency
All reads return the latest data, Data is eventually consistent,
ensuring data integrity but balancing performance with
potentially impacting some potential staleness.
performance.

Causal Consistency
A compromise between strong and eventual consistency, guaranteeing
causality between operations.
Consistency Example: E-
Commerce

Shopping Cart User Profile


Imagine adding an item to your cart Updating your user profile requires
on an e-commerce website. Strong consistency to ensure data accuracy,
consistency ensures your cart whether it's address or payment
reflects the latest changes. details.

Order Processing
Processing orders requires
consistency to prevent duplicates and
ensure that inventory reflects
accurate stock levels.
Transactions in Document Databases

Atomic
1 All operations within a transaction succeed or fail together.

Consistent
2
Data is consistent before and after a transaction, ensuring data integrity.

Isolated
3 Transactions are isolated from each other, preventing interference and
maintaining data integrity.

Durable
4 Once committed, changes are permanently stored, even in the
event of failures.
Transactions Example:
Banking

1 Account A Debit
The system debits the sender's account.

2 Account B Credit
The system credits the recipient's account.

3 Transaction Confirmation
Both accounts are updated atomically and consistently,
ensuring the transfer is successful.
Concurrency Control and ACID Compliance
Locking
1 Exclusive locks prevent simultaneous access to data, ensuring data integrity.

Optimistic Concurrency
2 Assumes no conflicts, performing checks at commit time, potentially reducing performance impact.

ACID Compliance
3 Document databases prioritize ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) properties for robust data management.
Real-World Use Cases and Applications

Social Media Gaming E-commerce


Managing user profiles, posts, and Storing game state, player data, and Managing product catalogs, orders, and
interactions. inventory. customer data.
The Future of Document
Databases
Document databases are poised to play a pivotal role in the future of data
management, supporting emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and
the Internet of Things.

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