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Learning Julia

By : Anshul Joshi, Rahul Lakhanpal
Book Image

Learning Julia

By: Anshul Joshi, Rahul Lakhanpal

Overview of this book

Julia is a highly appropriate language for scientific computing, but it comes with all the required capabilities of a general-purpose language. It allows us to achieve C/Fortran-like performance while maintaining the concise syntax of a scripting language such as Python. It is perfect for building high-performance and concurrent applications. From the basics of its syntax to learning built-in object types, this book covers it all. This book shows you how to write effective functions, reduce code redundancies, and improve code reuse. It will be helpful for new programmers who are starting out with Julia to explore its wide and ever-growing package ecosystem and also for experienced developers/statisticians/data scientists who want to add Julia to their skill-set. The book presents the fundamentals of programming in Julia and in-depth informative examples, using a step-by-step approach. You will be taken through concepts and examples such as doing simple mathematical operations, creating loops, metaprogramming, functions, collections, multiple dispatch, and so on. By the end of the book, you will be able to apply your skills in Julia to create and explore applications of any domain.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
8
Data Visualization and Graphics

NoSQL databases


We all know that in a traditional setting a database implements a relational model of data organized in row and columns. We call it popularly as RDBMS as studied earlier in this chapter. However, NoSQL databases are very different from this traditional setting.

A NoSQL database is a kind of database that doesn't store data in a row-column format or in other words tabular format. The most common approach used is to store data in the form of JSON document. JSON, which is a very popular format for data exchange can actually be used to organize data in key-value pairs. There is actually a wide classification under which NoSQL databases can be broadly classified. They are as follows:

  • Key-value stores
  • Document databases
  • Wide-column stores
  • Graph stores

Now, the question arises, why NoSQL? This is a very important question to be asked to big enterprises with the huge user bases that are expanding with the growing demand. The following are some features of NoSQL which makes it the default...