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Core technologies

NoSQL

  • Document (MongoDB) — flexible schema, nested JSON
  • Key-Value (Redis) — cache, sessions, queues
  • Column-family (Cassandra) — wide rows, write-heavy
  • Graph (Neo4j) — relationship traversals

Know when to leave relational: schema flexibility, horizontal scale, access pattern mismatch.