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NoSQL wide column store type

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NoSQL wide column store type

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- [Instructor] Let's talk about wide-column stores. So wide-column stores, or column family databases, are a subset of key-value NoSQL databases. They're like relational databases in some ways because they use tables, rows, and columns, but unlike relational, these dynamic columns can vary from row to row, so they're very different in that sense. Also, unlike relational databases, tables can be created, altered, even dropped, while the database is running. It's best to use these when you know the queries and model your tables around queries, instead of how we would do it in relational database modeling, where you're modeling your tables around the data. Wide-column stores can be used for very fast querying of specific parts of data, but not whole rows. So you have to really understand what you're going to be querying before you build this thing out because it can go really fast, but it is very specific on how you query,…

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