The Impact of IoE on NoSQL

I believe the Internet of Everything will read and write to NoSQL databases.

There was a great article on MQTT and CoAP in Eclipse's February newsletter.

• The IoE will read and write to NoSQL databases.
• The IoE will communicate over MQTT / CoAP.

What's the problem? NoSQL databases do not communicate over MQTT / CoAP.

That may need to change that. However, it is not a problem. It's a symptom.

Why is the database always the last stop?

Write #1

1. Send data to the application server and / or service bus.
2. Send data to the database.

Write #2

1. Send data to the application server and / or service bus.
2. Send data to the message broker.
3. Process the data as a stream.
4. Send processed data to the database.

The database is the last stop.

What if the database was the first and last stop?

1. Send data to the database via a message broker.
2. Process data as a stream or via services.
3. Send processed data to the database.

Summary

There is a place for application servers, and a database first architecture may not be practical for every application. However, I believe it may be practical for machines and things. It may be practical for simple writes at high throughput. It may be practical for sensor data.

I tend to think of traditional databases as being data at rest. I tend to think of stream processors as being data in motion. Perhaps the next generation of databases will be data at rest and data in motion.