Polyglot persistence
Polyglot persistence is a term used to denote the use of multiple storage technologies while persisting data. The term come from the term polyglot programming, where the choice of programming language is determined by the context. In the case of polyglot programming, we mix different programming languages. The authors of this book have come across systems that use Java for the application server code, Scala for stream processing, C++ for storage-related concerns, C# for writing the web layer, and, of course, TypeScript/JavaScript for the client-side programming. In the case of polyglot persistence, we have the choice of using RDBMS, key/value stores, document databases, graph databases, columnar databases, and even time ...
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