Database Types - MIS 431 Exam #1 Questions with Correct
Answers
Key Value Store - ✔✔Fast, in-memory database platform offering native support
for a wide range of data structures. Often used as part of a cache or message
broker system. (Ex. Redis)
Text Search - ✔✔Full text search and analytics engine; works in near real time,
including indexing. (Ex. Elasticsearch)
Document Based - ✔✔Document (JSON-like) based distributed data store. (Ex.
MongoDB)
Time-Series - ✔✔Simple DBMS for storing time series, events, and metrics. (Ex.
InfluxDB)
Distributed Wide Column Store - ✔✔Distributed, wide-column store best suited
to multi-cloud or multi-data center environment. (Ex. Apache Cassandra,
ScyllaDB)
Data Warehouse - ✔✔Centralized repository that aggregates structured data
from multiple distributed sources. (Ex. Snowflake)
Relational Database - ✔✔A database that represents data as a collection of tables
in which all data relationships are represented by common values in related
tables.
Answers
Key Value Store - ✔✔Fast, in-memory database platform offering native support
for a wide range of data structures. Often used as part of a cache or message
broker system. (Ex. Redis)
Text Search - ✔✔Full text search and analytics engine; works in near real time,
including indexing. (Ex. Elasticsearch)
Document Based - ✔✔Document (JSON-like) based distributed data store. (Ex.
MongoDB)
Time-Series - ✔✔Simple DBMS for storing time series, events, and metrics. (Ex.
InfluxDB)
Distributed Wide Column Store - ✔✔Distributed, wide-column store best suited
to multi-cloud or multi-data center environment. (Ex. Apache Cassandra,
ScyllaDB)
Data Warehouse - ✔✔Centralized repository that aggregates structured data
from multiple distributed sources. (Ex. Snowflake)
Relational Database - ✔✔A database that represents data as a collection of tables
in which all data relationships are represented by common values in related
tables.
