ABSTRACT
Due to the Era of Big Data with the large amount of distributed databases in the web and the rapid growth in the
smart systems a rapid growth happening in database models and the relational database fails to dealing with such
a big amount of data and have many limitations the need to new technologies comes up, which makes DBMS
developers move towards column oriented NOSQL database. The main goal of this paper is to provide a survey on
NOSQL Model especiallya column oriented NOSQL database, providing the user with the benefit of using
NOSQL database, Instead of using the (row database) relational to overcome the drawbacks of the relational
database Model.
Keywords: - Relational Databases, NoSQL, Columnar Database, BASE properties.