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Non-relational database offerings in Azure

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Non-relational database offerings in Azure

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- [Instructor] Now let's take a look at the different databases supporting these non-relational data types. Although you can store non-relational data files, as we have covered in the previous slides, you better leverage their potential by hosting the data on a non-relational database. They are also generically called NoSQL databases, which means not SQL or not only SQL, depending on who you ask. There are several types of NoSQL databases, including key-value stores, document databases, column-family databases, and graph databases. We start with the key-value stores. A key-value store is the simplest and often the fastest type of NoSQL database. Unlike relational databases, on key-value stores, each row can have any number of columns. Each item on this database has a key-value pair. The key is used to uniquely identify the item, and the value holds the actual data. The main focus on a key-value store is the ability to…

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