http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/6/20/35-use-cases-for-choosing-your...

The article gives a list of types and properties of the differnet nosql databases and then some criteria to help choose the right one for an application.

The previous articles listed at the start of the post

Large scale analysis solution must be able to provide very fast response time (<1sec) to some complex queries which are typically structured from a large fact table which is joined to many dimension tables and grouped-by them.

Using standard SQL databases such as MySQL InnoDB (as well as leading commercial vendors) will result in poor performance even when correct indexes are set up since in many case the database will be forced to perform unnecessary full table scans which will kill the performance if dimension tables are large.

Michael wrote in his post about beauty of MongoDB.

I tried to run a couple lines of code and found it very easy to get started with.

There are steps to get there:

1. Download binaries. I  used version 1.2.3 for Win32

2. Create the data folder C:\data\db

3. Run mongod.exe

At this step you have MongoDB running.

4. Download C# driver

5. Create a console application with Visual Studio

6. Add references to driver's dlls

Now you are ready to write code.

I just copies a lines of code from Michale's post into Main method and added console output: