Non-relational Database

https://www.mongodb.com/databases/non-relational

https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/relational-databases

https://www.mongodb.com/databases/types/examples

• Non-relational database is based on data structures like documents.
• It has felxible schemas (the kind or a type of data to store).
• It is basically stored as key-value pair in a single table. As long as we know the key, it is much faster to reach to the data.

Example MongoDB Document for a Patient in Healthcare

Benefits

• Flexible and fast.
• Dataset is not static. new data points can be absorbed easily.
• Built for the cloud.
• Better for data that change a lot.

Usage

• Used to store web pages. Fast response. Availability over Consistency
  • social network applications
  • web applications
  • wikipeida