The Purpose-Built Database Era: Pick the right tool for the job
Relational
• Provides high integrity, accuracy, and consistency; limitless indexing
• Useful for ERP, CRM, finance, transactions, and data warehousing
Key-value
• Fast read/write; value can be anything
• Useful for real-time bidding, shopping cart, product catalog, and
customer preferences
Document
• Flexible, semi-structured, hierarchical, evolves with application
needs, powerful indexing, fast querying
• Useful for catalogs, content management systems,
user profiles, personalization, and mobile
In-memory
• Sub-millisecond latency, millions of operations per second, simple
instruction set, support for rich commands (Redis), works with any
type of database
• Useful for caching, session store, leaderboards, geospatial, and
real-time analytics
Graph
• Create and traverse relationships within highly connected
data sets
• Useful for fraud detection, social networking, recommendations,
and knowledge graphs
Time series
• High scalability for data that accumulates quickly
• Useful for DevOps, application monitoring, industrial telemetry,
and IoT applications
Ledger
• Ensures accurate history, transparent, immutable, verifiable,
and highly scalable
• Useful for finance, manufacturing, insurance, HR
and payroll, retail, and supply chains
Wide column
• Efficient for data compression and/or partitioning
• Used for high scale industrial apps for equipment maintenance,
fleet management, and route optimization
The right database for the job
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to choose the purpose-built databases for all
your application needs.
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Benefits of purpose-built databases:
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Right tool for the job
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Better performance
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Cloud scale
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More functionality
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Easier to debug and monitor
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Faster time to market
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Lower TCO
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Reduced operations
