Oracle NoSQL Database
Oracle NoSQL Database: Real-Time Big Data Management for the Enterprise
Maqsood Alam
Aalok Muley
Ashok Joshi
Chaitanya Kadaru
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To my wife, Suraiya; my marvelous angels, Zuha and Firas; and my parents; for their unconditional, extraordinary, and incredible love and support, as always!
Maqsood Alam
To my parents; my wife, Sheela; and my amazing kids, Dhruv and Anusha. Without their love and support, this project would not have been possible.
Aalok Muley
To my wife, Anita, and my children, Avina and Nishant, whose love, support, and encouragement made this possible, and to the amazing NoSQL Database development team for creating this wonderful product!
Ashok Joshi
This book is dedicated to my family, especially my mom; my beautiful wife, Deepthi; and my little angel, Tanya.
Chaitanya Kadaru
About the Authors
Maqsood Alam is a Director of Product Management at Oracle and has over 17 years of experience in architecting, building, and evangelizing enterprise and system software. Maqsood is a pure technologist at heart and has a wide range of expertise, ranging from parallel and distributed systems to high performance database applications and big data. His current initiatives at Oracle are focused on Oracle NoSQL Database, Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database 12c, and the Oracle Big Data Appliance. He is a coauthor of the book Achieving Extreme Performance with Oracle Exadata published by McGraw-Hill Education, and also the author of several whitepapers and best practices dealing with various Oracle technologies. He is an Oracle Certified Professional and holds both bachelors and masters degrees in computer science.
Aalok Muley is a Senior Director of Product Management at Oracle. He is responsible for driving adoption of Oracles family of database products: Oracle NoSQL Database, Oracle Big Data Connectors, Oracle Database 12c, and engineered systems such as Oracle Big Data Appliance and Oracle Exadata. Aalok has over 19 years of experience; he has led teams working on database industry standard benchmarks, database product development, and Fusion Middleware technologies. He has been part of the technology integration of many Oracle acquisitions. As part of the product development organization, Aalok is currently focused on working closely with partners and customers to design high-throughput, highly available enterprise-grade solutions. He holds a masters degree in computer engineering from Worcester Polytechnical Institute in Massachusetts.
Ashok Joshi is the Senior Director of Development for Oracle NoSQL Database, Berkeley DB, and Database Mobile Server. Ashok has been involved in database systems technology for over two decades as an individual contributor, as well as in a management role. Ashok has made extensive contributions to indexing, concurrency control, buffer management, logging and recovery, and performance optimizations in a variety of products, including Oracle Rdb, Oracle Database, and Sybase SQL Server. He is the author or coauthor of several papers as well as 12 patents on database technology. Ashok graduated from the Indian Institutes of Technology, Bombay with a bachelors degree in electrical engineering and received a masters degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
