NoSQL encompasses a wide variety of different database technologies and were developed in response to a rise in the volume of data stored about users, objects and products, the frequency in which this data is accessed, and performance and processing needs. Relational databases, on the other hand, were not designed to cope with the scale and agility challenges that face modern applications, nor were they built to take advantage of the cheap storage and processing power available today. NoSQL database types include document databases, graph stores, key-value stores, and wide-column stores.

This devroom is a good place to learn more about NoSQL and meet community members from various database companies.