NoSQL in Higher Education. A Case Study

Incorporate Cross-Course Knowledge Integration into Computing Education

“…Learning theoretical concepts from different courses causes students to lose interest, without knowing the practical application of data-management technologies in real-world scenarios. Integrating the databases to a number of different application areas will improve students' understanding of database management technologies comprehensively [1], [15]. This study is the first to investigate integrated education at an upper-level data management undergraduate course.…”

NoSQL and SQL Databases for Mobile Applications. Case Study: MongoDB versus PostgreSQL

“…A good amount of literature has been dedicated to NoSQL movement, which varies from full excitement [15] to criticism [16][17] and conciliation with relational technologies [18] [19]. For a brief discussion about the context of NoSQL emergence, NoSQL basic features see [20], [21], [22], [23]. In advocating NoSQL versus Relational Databases for Mobile Applications Asay [24] points out two weaknesses of relational technologiesthe rigidity of schema and impossibility of handling all of the different use cases mobile applications call for.…”

“…Due to their scalability and speed Selvadurai [25] recommends using NoSQL datastores when mobile applications manage huge amount of data on a central server. In this paper MongoDB was chosen as a NoSQL camp representative due to its features and popularity [21][26]. Next we will describe the usage of an external cloud database service (MongoDB) for Android.…”