NOSQL is a sort of all-encompassing term which includes very simple key/value databases like Memcache, along with more sophisticated non-relational databases such as Mongodb and Cassandra. Relational databases have been around since the 70’s so they’re a very mature technology. In general they support transactions allowing you to make changes to your data in discrete, …
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