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Types of data storage

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Types of data storage

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- [Instructor] As you've come to expect from this course so far, we have decisions to make in this chapter. We've already discussed that there is a vast number of data sources that we can pull data from, in a vast number of formats, so as you can imagine, we have a lot of storage options available too. I'm going to introduce five data storage options we have available to us, and we'll dive into more details in the following videos. It's important to have a good overview of the options before we start, to focus on which one we want to choose. Number one is relational databases. These are perfect for storing structured data that is organized into tables with rows and columns. If our data is semi-structured or unstructured, we could instead consider option two, which is NoSQL databases. NoSQL databases provide more flexibility when handling this less structured data. Number three is data warehouses. These are centralized repositories that are optimized for analytics and reporting. We'll…

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