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The different types of databases and their use-cases:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Database Type<\/th>\nData Model<\/th>\nUse Cases<\/th>\nExamples<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
SQL<\/td>\nStructured<\/td>\nTransactional applications<\/td>\nMySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
NoSQL<\/td>\nUnstructured<\/td>\nWeb applications, big data applications<\/td>\nMongoDB, Redis, Cassandra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Graph<\/td>\nRelationships<\/td>\nSocial networking applications, recommendation engines, fraud detection<\/td>\nNeo4j, OrientDB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time-series<\/td>\nTime-series data<\/td>\nMonitoring applications<\/td>\nInfluxDB, Prometheus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Object<\/td>\nObjects<\/td>\nApplications that require complex data modeling<\/td>\nVersant, Poet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wide column<\/td>\nData organized in columns<\/td>\nData warehousing and analytics applications<\/td>\nApache Cassandra, Google Bigtable<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Logical<\/td>\nVirtual layer on top of physical databases<\/td>\nUnifying view of data from multiple sources<\/td>\nDenodo, DataStax Enterprise<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
In-memory<\/td>\nData in memory<\/td>\nApplications that require real-time performance<\/td>\nHazelcast, Apache Ignite<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Distributed<\/td>\nData spread across multiple servers<\/td>\nApplications that require high availability and performance<\/td>\nApache Cassandra, Google Spanner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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