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ADVANTAGES TO USING CLOUD PLATFORMS TO DEPLOY NOSQL SOLUTIONS

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ADVANTAGES TO USING CLOUD PLATFORMS TO DEPLOY NOSQL

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Cloud computing platforms are applications that are executed over the internet. Some

may employ a distributed structure which can cause a lot of strain on load distribution across

several database instances. The NoSQL database is a preferred alternative to the traditional

database because of three major reasons outlined in this paper. NoSQL achieves a higher

scalability than traditional databases. This is achieved by cloud computing platforms by ensuring

that three states are achieved, consistency, and availability and Partition tolerance(Toumani ,

2014.)

In cloud computing platforms, write operations to the database occur via multiple nodes

before data duplication to all the other nodes. This occurs in some instances within a second and

eventually only one node is read from in a read operation. This property ensures that data is

always available to the user whenever they query it.

Consistency is another advantage of deploying NoSQL databases with cloud computing

platforms. This guarantees that whenever a user queries the database, the latest version of the

data is provided to the user. This is achieved by ensuring that a success flag is produced if results

are read from half of the nodes. Consistency is also achieved through the use of locking

mechanisms. This is achieved by ensuring that a read process can’t succeed until a certain node

has the latest version of some data.

The needs of most cloud computing platforms change over a certain duration of time.

NoSQL database don’t provide a fixed schema meaning that a user can dynamically alter the

structure of their database and add new attributes to their tables. This can also be a great

advantage especially in achieving seamless scalability (Raj, et al 2014)

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References

Toumani, Farouk. Service Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2014 Workshops: WESOA ;

SeMaPS, RMSOC, KASA, ISC, FOR-MOVES, CCSA and Satellite Events, Paris, France,

November 3-6, 2014 ; Revised Selected Papers. Springer, 2015.

Raj, Pethuru, and Ganesh Chandra Deka. Handbook of Research on Cloud

Infrastructures for Big Data Analytics. Information Science Reference/IGI Global, 2014.