Organizations who want to take advantage of the many benefits of NoSQL databases, often find that they have two challenges:
- How to convert their RDBMS schemas to leverage the schema-less document model.
- Learn a new API/Query to access the data.
Some also find the confusion with the NoSQL name. The abbreviation stands for 'Not only SQL', but it can also be misinterpreted it as 'No to SQL', thus accepting that in order to use NoSQL database, organizations will not only have to convert their relational data model into the document model, but also get training on whichever APIs for the NoSQL database that they will select.