"NoSQL" is a buzzword describing a diverse collection of database systems that focus on "semi-structured" data (that do not fit well into a tabular representation), sharding, and high concurrency at the expense of transactional integrity and consistency, the latter being among the basic tenets of relational database management systems (RDBMS). More @Wikipedia
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