{"id":217,"date":"2013-12-22T20:32:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T20:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2014-03-01T18:06:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T18:06:21","slug":"is-it-better-to-use-mysql-or-nosql-in-terms-of-ease-of-developement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/is-it-better-to-use-mysql-or-nosql-in-terms-of-ease-of-developement\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it better to use MySQL or NoSQL in terms of ease of developement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If scaling is not an issue, I highly recommend using MySQL. But of course we need to understand when scaling becomes an issue. If you are using PHP or Python with a MySQL database with more than 100M rows and more than 10 GB of data, scaling becomes a problem. You can try optimizing MyISAM or Innodb tables, but you won&#8217;t see more than a 30% performance gain in most cases. If you have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghash.com\/3622729\/Is-There-A-High-Performance-Difference-In-A-Key-value-Db-On-A-Single-Server-With-Mysql-Vs-Nosql\">470M rows with 200 GB of data in a MyISAM table<\/a>, you are probably at the limits of what MySQL can do for you (unless you shard and use master-slave tables).<\/p>\n<p>In terms of scaling, NoSQL is great. It&#8217;s not as easy or intuitive as MySQL, but MongoDB has pretty good documentation, and a smaller learning curve than most NoSQL databases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If scaling is not an issue, I highly recommend using MySQL. But of course we need to understand when scaling becomes an issue. If you are using PHP or Python with a MySQL database with more than 100M rows and more than 10 GB of data, scaling becomes a problem. You can try optimizing MyISAM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}