Key-value databases
Key-value databases operate on the principle of structuring data as pairs of values corresponding to keys. To highlight the benefits of key-value databases, it would help to revisit the significance of hash maps, a common term prevalent in computer science to specify a unique data-structure that provides a constant-time lookup for key pairs.
An intuitive example for a hash table is as follows:
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