Which application scenario is most suitable for a document database?

A monitoring system storing millions of metrics per second

A content management system where articles have different fields and structures

A social network analyzing connections between users and their friends

A banking system requiring strict ACID transactions across accounts

Which characteristic is a defining feature of a relational database?

Data is stored in flexible JSON-like documents

Data is organized into tables with rows and columns and enforced relationships

Data is stored in columns optimized for analytical queries

Data is stored as nodes and edges to represent connections

What is the primary advantage of columnar storage in a database?

Efficiently traversing relationships between entities

Efficiently handling high-volume write operations with ACID transactions

Providing flexible schemas for unstructured data

Optimizing analytical queries that aggregate data across many rows

What is a defining feature of a time series database?

It stores data in columns for analytical queries

It uses nodes and edges to represent relationships

It stores data in flexible JSON documents

It is optimized for storing and querying timestamped data points

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Evaluate Choice of Database Types with Respect to Application Requirements (such as Relational, Document, Graph, Columnar, and Time Series) 350-901 Practice Questions (Page 2)

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An IoT platform collects sensor readings from thousands of devices every second. The application needs to store these time-stamped data points and support queries like 'average temperature over the last hour' and 'detect spikes in the last 5 minutes'. Which database type is best suited?
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