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Shop Talk: Why Are There So Many Flavors of Databases?

The Data Stack Show

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Graph Databases

Al: Why do people keep trying to invent new kinds of databases? That's really more of the question. Like, what is the latest flavor of the database that you have seen out there that you didn't know about it? Data based systems are primarily let's say The category based on the workloads that they serve best. So we're at a point where we need to stop like specializing. We suddenly have time series data basis and then we have data lakes,. Then we have graph data bases and divide in stores and in memory system. And as we need to like to do more and more. On each one of these workloads. Al: There's no common rights in terms of

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