Redis Labs sponsored this post. They must work with mountains of disparate data, return results in the blink of an eye, and cope with hugely complex technology environments — all while remaining easy to work with and highly available. To meet those challenges, modern database platforms must possess these nine key characteristics: Modern databases have to respond in less than one millisecond to avoid becoming a performance bottleneck for today’s applications.
The inability to quickly recover from a database failure can result in loss of data and frustrated users, an unacceptable problem in everything from financial transactions to online orders.
Now, NoSQL databases put unstructured data in a document and use key-value data storage and search capabilities to find what you’re looking for.