When to use column family databases

NoSQL Concepts

Miriam Antona

Software engineer

Suitable cases - general cases

• Large volumes of data
• Extreme write speeds

Suitable cases - event logging

• Types of events:
  • User logging
  • Errors
  • ...

Suitable cases - Content Management Systems

• Comments
• Links
• Tags
• ...

Suitable cases - time-series data

• Weather
• Traffic
• etc.

Unsuitable cases

• Prototyping and at the beginning of a project
  • Need to change the queries very frequently
  • Changing the queries -> may imply changing the design of the column families
  • Costly and may slow down the productivity
• Complex queries and joins
• Not dealing with large amounts of data

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NoSQL Concepts