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Production database

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The largest category of databases – both in terms of number of available options and total market size – is production databases. Teams use them to store application data, the data that backs the apps we use every day like Gmail, Slack, and even your Bloomberg Terminal. They're optimized for running many small queries at once, vs. something like analytical databases that are optimized for huge, infrequent queries.

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