Databases have been primarily consumed in a centralized manner since their earliest applications, dawning in the mid-1960s. Databases were meant to provide direct access to the information requested by either users or client applications. This centralized approach was influenced majorly by the client-server architecture introduced in the early days. This design paradigm was popularly followed by the market with successful products in commercial- and consumer-level databases such as DB2 and dBASE, respectively. Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)-based databases followed the client-server model. These centralized databases managed data redundancy by making regular copies of the data on disks and magnetic tapes.
However, the dawn of NoSQL in the 2000s is credited with distributed databases that scale horizontally, with higher tolerance to failures and less chance of data corruption. NoSQL databases are able to manage data without schemas and...
