Data store can refer to a broad class of storage systems including: •
Paper files • Simple files like a
spreadsheet •
File systems •
Email storage systems (both
server and
client systems) •
Databases •
Relational databases, based on the
relational model of data •
Object-oriented databases. They can save
objects of an
object-oriented design. •
NoSQL databases •
Key–value databases •
Wide-column stores •
Graph databases •
Distributed data stores •
Directory services •
VMware uses the term
datastore to refer to a file that stores a
virtual machine == See also ==