After losing his job, Patrick founded a niche online store selling green fedoras and chose a trending NoSQL database for his backend. Despite signing a one-year contract for a cloud database offering with ample provisioned throughput, he only attracted fewer than ten customers daily. His experience highlights the importance of properly analyzing workload characteristics when selecting a database, as universal claims do not hold true across diverse operational scenarios.
After experimenting with a free tier of a NoSQL database, Patrick signed a one-year contract for a cloud database-as-a-service but ended up with fewer than ten daily customers.
The database selection process should involve analyzing workload characteristics since different databases perform optimally for certain types of data requests.
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