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What is the best NoSQL database to store unstructured data?

11th February 2012

My answer to What is the best NoSQL database to store unstructured data? on Quora

Any of the document stores are worth a look—I’d suggest investigating MongoDB, Riak and CouchDB.

Posted 11th February 2012 at 3:06 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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