The Details: production databases (SQL and NoSQL)

This post is going to dive deeper into production databases. We’re going to look at what they’re used for, popular options (SQL vs. NoSQL – what’s the difference?), challenges with scaling applications, and where databases are going (serverless, basically). 

The first “Details” post covered ETL, and the last one covered data warehouses. 

Refresher: what’s a production database?

There are a lot of different types of databases out there. They come in all different shapes and sizes based on what engineering teams use them for. A few that you’ve probably come across: