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Glossary: System Design Basics in C#

NoSQL

Also written: wide-column store, Cassandra

Databases that aren't relational tables, such as key-value, document and wide-column stores (huge tables over many machines, like Cassandra). They give up some relational features for simple, very large scale.

Where the book teaches it

Related terms

Relational databaseKey-value storeDocument store