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Objects / documents / "key-value". If the data is small enough to fit on a single application server node, it seems to me that the relational model is likely overkill. But I don't doubt that there are good counter-examples to this, it's just my intuition.


Key-value pretty trivially fits into the relationship model if need be. But yeah, if you’re very sure of the key-valueness of your data, something like RocksDB could be a more direct fit. It’s just a little harder to work with in my experience.


I guess my experience is the opposite. We're probably both right, just about different things.




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