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Building Web Services with Windows Azure (new)

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Product type Book
Published in May 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781784398378
Pages 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Building Web Services with Microsoft Azure
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Introduction
Getting Started with the ASP.NET Web API Extending the ASP.NET Web API API Management Developing a Web API for Mobile Apps Connecting Applications with Microsoft Azure Service Bus Creating Hybrid Services Data Services in the Cloud – an Overview of ADO.NET and Entity Framework Data Services in the Cloud – Microsoft Azure Storage Data Services in the Cloud – NoSQL in Microsoft Azure Index

Understanding NoSQL


Each database management system uses its own database model to manage the structure of the data kept. The choice of the database management system can have serious consequences for the database application—how the data will be stored, which structures will be used, how the application should build its database access layer, among others.

The most popular database model is the relational model (introduced in 1970s) due to its maturity; it is powerful and flexible and has a logical mathematical model that is easy to understand because of the familiar way of connecting entities with simple relations (that is, a Person table connected with the Company table).

However, there have been issues that were never addressed by the relational model, and if application demands that there should not be a strict structured data or it should be scaled in a more flexible way, then developers may assess the NoSQL model.

The NoSQL model is getting rid of some SQL limits and constraints. NoSQL...

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