Key value stores allow the application to store its data in a schema-less way. The data can be stored in a datatype of a programming language or an object.
This feature highlights the finest open source key value stores. Hopefully, there will be something of interest for anyone who needs to store millions of data records, to help in statistical or real-time analysis.
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