Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Overview IX
4. Contents XIII
5. List of Figures XIX
6. List of Tables XXII
7. Part I: Introduction
8. 1. Background 3
9. 2. Relational Database Management Systems 17
10. Part II: NOSQL And Non-Relational Databases
11. 3. New Requirements, “Not only SQL” and the Cloud 33
12. 4. Graph Databases 41
13. 5. XML Databases 69
14. 6. Key-value Stores and Document Databases 105
15. 7. Column Stores 143
16. 8. Extensible Record Stores 161
17. 9. Object Databases 193
18. Part III: Distributed Data Management
19. 10. Distributed Database Systems 235
20. 11. Data Fragmentation 245
21. 12. Replication And Synchronization 261
22. 13. Consistency 295
23. Part IV: Conclusion
24. 14. Further Database Technologies 311
25. 15. Concluding Remarks 317
26. Bibliography 333
27. Index 347