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Engagement Presentation KCDC 2025

Going Schema-less: How to migrate a relational database to a NoSQL database

Session details and resources for KCDC 2025: Going Schema-less.

📅 August 15, 2025
🕐 3:30 PM CDT
📍 2201

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Going Schema-less: How to migrate a relational database to a NoSQL database

In the ever-evolving landscape of database management, NoSQL databases offer a compelling alternative with their schema-less design and horizontal scalability. This session dives into migrating from a relational database to a NoSQL counterpart, exploring the benefits and challenges of such a transition—including leveraging multiple data stores through a polyglot persistence approach.

Learning Objectives

  • Learn about the pros and cons of developing a NoSQL data model over a relational one.
  • Learn how to migrate data from a relational database to a NoSQL data model.
  • Learn how to develop a .NET application to use a Cosmos DB NoSQL data model.

Session Resources