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Matt Anderson
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Lab 1-Introduction and SQL vs NoSQL

Introduction

Hey everyone! My name is Matt Anderson and I am a freshman at Penn State majoring in Cyber Security. I grew up in Westwood, NJ and graduated from Westwood High School.

Why choose Cyber Security?

I chose Cyber Security because I have always been interested in technology and computers even since I was a little kid. As a high school student performing well in my math and science classes, I was often pushed to do engineering, however I had no interest in becoming an engineer. Computers had always been more interesting to me and as I researched majors cyber security in the college of IST sounded like a great choice for me.

Future as an IT Professional

As much as I was interested in computers, I never really had many opportunities to learn coding through my school, besides through my AP Computer Science class so I am somewhat new to this. In that class I learned basic java, so I do have some experience with coding. Growing up, I have also thoroughly enjoyed helping others, so with a degree in Cyber Security I am hoping to be able to protect people and their data from cyber criminals. As our society relies more and more on technology, more and more people are going to need protection from cyber crime and that is my goal with my degree.

SQL vs NoSQL

Alright, that's enough about me. Below, I am going to attach a video that I made describing the differences between SQL and NoSQL. Underneath the video you will find some important bullet points related to the video and links to my references for the information.

-SQL stands for standard query language that use relational databases
-NoSQL use non-relational databases; such as document, key-value, wide-column, and graph databases
-SQLs have a very rigid data model while NoSQLs are very dynamic in their capabilities
-SQLs has strong data integrity because of ACID, while NoSQLs have higher performance because of the lack of data integrity

Reference Links
-https://www.infoworld.com/article/3219795/what-is-sql-the-first-language-of-data-analysis
-https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/sql-vs-nosql
-www.mongodb.com/nosql-explained

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