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Abirami Sukumaran
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Abirami Sukumaran

Abirami Sukumaran is a lead developer advocate at Google, focusing on databases and data to AI journey with Google Cloud. She has over 17 years of experience in data management, data governance, and analytics across several industries in various roles from engineering to leadership, and has 3 patents filed in the data area. She believes in driving social and business impact with technology. She is also an international keynote, tech panel, and motivational speaker, including key events like Google I/O, Cloud NEXT, MLDS, GDS, Huddle Global, India Startup Festival, Women Developers Academy, and so on. She founded Code Vipassana, an award-winning, non-profit, tech-enablement program powered by Google and she runs with the support of Google Developer Communities GDG Cloud Kochi, Chennai, Mumbai, and a few developer leads. She is pursuing her doctoral research in business administration with artificial intelligence, is a certified Yoga instructor, practitioner, and an Indian above everything else.
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NoSQL for semi-structured data

NoSQL is a type of database management system that is designed to cater to the needs of semi-structured and unstructured forms of data modeled in formats other than the tabular one supported by relational databases. NoSQL databases are mainly used to manage big data and real-time web applications. You can think of NoSQL as a system or language that not only supports SQL but also unstructured and semi-structured queries and data. The objective of NoSQL databases can be simply put as follows:

  • Robust and simple design
  • Flexible in terms of format and source
  • Object-oriented application—database dependency limitation
  • Better control over availability
  • Partition tolerance

NoSQL databases adhere to the CAP theorem, which guarantees two of the following three principles for any distributed data store:

  • Consistency: This is different from the consistency addressed by the atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability...
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Abirami Sukumaran

Abirami Sukumaran is a lead developer advocate at Google, focusing on databases and data to AI journey with Google Cloud. She has over 17 years of experience in data management, data governance, and analytics across several industries in various roles from engineering to leadership, and has 3 patents filed in the data area. She believes in driving social and business impact with technology. She is also an international keynote, tech panel, and motivational speaker, including key events like Google I/O, Cloud NEXT, MLDS, GDS, Huddle Global, India Startup Festival, Women Developers Academy, and so on. She founded Code Vipassana, an award-winning, non-profit, tech-enablement program powered by Google and she runs with the support of Google Developer Communities GDG Cloud Kochi, Chennai, Mumbai, and a few developer leads. She is pursuing her doctoral research in business administration with artificial intelligence, is a certified Yoga instructor, practitioner, and an Indian above everything else.
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