The term data store is a generalization of the idea of a database . Relational databases, hierarchical databases, key/value stores, and even filesystems are all examples of data stores. In Kubernetes and other cloud-oriented systems, data stores are treated in a very special way.
The goal , in general, is to make the applications themselves contain as little persistent state as possible in order to allow them to be maximally scalable. However, for a system to be useful, the data has ...
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