In today’s web-enabled world, the use of Database Management Systems (DBMS) is extremely common and becoming even more necessary as each day passes. In most cases, the choice is your typical RDBMS such as MySQL, PostreSQL, SQLite or SQL Server. Some larger, enterprise-level systems choose larger solutions such as Oracle.

As a company grows, it becomes a much bigger pain and seemingly less logical to maintain data relationally. It requires more and bigger hardware, labor, decreased performance and becomes difficult to maintain and scale out. This can partly be blamed for the nature of relational systems.