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11. Purpose-Built Databases

William Penberthy1   and Steve Roberts1
(1)
Seattle, WA, USA
 

So far, we have talked a lot about relational databases and some about NoSQL databases, especially document and key/value databases. Those are different types of purpose-built databases , or databases designed to fulfill a set of use cases. These purpose-built databases tend to be designed around diverse data models as their primary use case, just like how a relational data model is different from a document database data model, which is different from the key/value data ...

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