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Types of NoSQL Databases

  NoSQL Databases are a new form of database that is gaining popularity and are increasingly used daily. Most of the companies are switching to these databases due to the wide variety of their use cases. A famous one that we always keep hearing is the "MongoDB".  But what in actually is NoSQL,  NoSQL term was coined and founded in the 21st century only with the rise in Web2.0(the current face of the internet), due to the increase in unstructured and Big data (Eg. Tweets generated from Twitter, images and videos shared on social media, logs generated by sites, purchase history of a customer etc.)  that was not feasible for the traditional SQL databases to store and process. Thus, NoSQL can be defined as the SQL for the Unstructured and Big data. Still unable to differentiate between SQL and NoSQL..!!! Read it here .  How Data is stored in NoSQL Databases?  So, now coming to the point, when the data generation sources are so different and in various formats then how the data is