Can Postgres cover your NoSQL needs?

SymfonyCon, Vienna, Austria - December, 2024

© David Buchmann

David Buchmann - david@liip.ch

PHP Engineer, Liip AG, Switzerland

What does NoSQL Even Mean?

• non-sql
• not only sql
• actually not-relational

Even Wikipedia only offers a negative definition:
«A database that focuses on data that is modeled in means other than tabular relations»

What do you want from NoSQL?

• Schemaless, unstructured or semi-structured data
  JSON, XML, key-value or specialized, e.g. graph database
• Scalability to manage large data sets.