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by lapaz17 1709 days ago
Could you explain that k:v system a little bit? Junior eng. here.
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KV means key value. Essentially the suggestion is to organize your data as a big key value structure(hashmap-like). This term usually means data is not normalized/separated as in regular SQL.

for instance, in SQL:

User table, that has columns: id, email

Article table, that has columns: id, text, user_id

KV/noSQL equivalent:

Article document, that has properties: id, text, user_email