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Document databases
From the course: Relational Databases Essential Training
Document databases
- [Instructor] The other database model that you should be aware of is called a document database, or a document store. Document databases store individual files that contain information about a single object. These can be XML data files or JSON data files or PDF files or Word documents, or the database can store a mixture of file types. The documents can be read and categorized by the system, put into collections, or have attribute tags attached to them. And unlike a relational database, all of the information about a single object is stored in the single document. It's not spread out across multiple tables. Since each document can contain different kinds of information about the object it represents, the organization of a document database comes entirely from the individual documents that are stored. This allows you to add information to the database without first having to define the structure, like you would with…
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