SMRTR ProgrammingMay 24, 2026Reddit

The Database Zoo: Exotic Data Storage Engines - why SQL and NoSQL aren't enough anymore

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Modern applications now handle vastly different data types — from IoT metrics to AI vectors to social graphs — and neither SQL nor NoSQL databases handle all of them well. This series explores specialized database engines built for specific workloads, explaining their internal designs and real-world uses, starting with time-series databases.

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