Learner Reviews & Feedback for Introduction to NoSQL Databases by IBM

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About the Course

Get started with NoSQL Databases with this beginner-friendly introductory course! This course will provide technical, hands-on knowledge of NoSQL databases and Database-as-a-Service (DaaS) offerings. With the advent of Big Data and agile development methodologies, NoSQL databases have gained a lot of relevance in the database landscape. Their main advantage is the ability to handle scalability and flexibility issues modern applications raise. You will start this course by learning the history and the basics of NoSQL databases (document, key-value, column, and graph) and discover their key characteristics and benefits. You will learn about the four categories of NoSQL databases and how they differ. You’ll also explore the differences between the ACID and BASE consistency models, the pros and cons of distributed systems, and when to use RDBMS and NoSQL. You will also learn about vector databases, an emerging class of databases popular in AI. Next, you will explore the architecture and features of several implementations of NoSQL databases, namely MongoDB, Cassandra, and IBM Cloudant. You will learn about the common tasks that they each perform and their key and defining characteristics. You will then get hands-on experience using those NoSQL databases to perform standard database management tasks, such as creating and replicating databases, loading and querying data, modifying database permissions, indexing and aggregating data, and sharding (or partitioning) data. At the end of this course, you will complete a final project where you will apply all your knowledge of the course content to a specific scenario and work with several NoSQL databases. This course suits anyone wanting to expand their Data Management and Information Technology skill set....

Top reviews

Oct 4, 2021

Useful lab for skimming through different databases. The session of Cloudant, however, looks more like a sales material... This course is overall very good!

Apr 18, 2023

I should say then is not totally for beginner. Maybe intermediate level, some skills of programming are necessary to don't get stuck at the last assessment.

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By Tsoyesh S

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Jul 3, 2023

The course is heavily focused on theoretical aspect, reading materials and videos, which is good but would love to also have more videos on practical demonstration of getting IDE setup, codes executed, etc. As a beginner, I found it challenging to setup IDEs, especially IBM Cloudant, also it seems the start mongo code in IBM Cloudant sometimes takes forever to load which I as a beginner struggled a bit and lost tons of time submitting projects. Overall the course was definitely helpful as I learnt new things.

By Steven C

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Oct 8, 2024

The practice final project in Module 4 actually requires doing some of the optional materials in Module 5 (using Cloudant). But the actual final project does not require the material from Module 5. Somebody from the admin team needs to go through the course again to make sure the progression actually makes sense

By Ryan E

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Sep 25, 2022

Thought the final exercise was a little too hard. Had issues with gettting Cloudant to work with the code provided.

By Piotr D

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Apr 25, 2024

A lot of valuable content, but the mistakes in the exam evaluation are unacceptable, they cost people more than just time. Please review the materials.