Data Modeling in Document Databases for the RDBMS-Minded
by Cihan Biyikoglu (guest author), 7 December 2015
Tags: Data Modeling, Document stores, Relational DBMS

Data modeling for relational databases uses entity relationship diagrams and normalization, techniques which have evolved to perfection over the years. However data naturally does not exist in this full normalized form in real world applications. Document databases provide flexible primitives like JSON documents for storing entities but this does not mean data modeling is a lost art!

Our DB-Engines ranking identifies the most popular DBMS systems in various database model categories
by Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann, 22 January 2013
Tags: Database models, DB-Engines Ranking, Document stores, Graph DBMS, Key-value stores, RDF stores, Wide column stores

We have introduced sub-rankings by spliting up the DBMS systems per database models.