WHITEPAPER Modernizing with NoSQL from Relational Data Platforms The Keys to Success in Designing Your Applications for NoSQL When internet pioneers like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and Amazon began designing the infrastructure they needed to run their global businesses, they hit a major obstacle in their data layer. Legacy database software did not support the requirements of the (then) newly evolved applications that had markedly different requirements than the previous application eras of centralized and semi-centralized systems. Because the new radically distributed and massive scale of multi-home internet applications could not be serviced with traditional databases, the innovators did what innovators typically do—they built their own. These databases are today known as NoSQL platforms.T

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