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Database Architecture Trade-Offs

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Can you explain the trade-offs between different database architectures for a high-volume application?

Discuss how you would compare relational, distributed key-value, wide-column, document, analytical, and vector databases for an end-to-end ML system. Cover workload fit, consistency, partitioning, scaling, latency, cost, operational complexity, and failure recovery, including how database choices affect retrieval, ranking features, training data, and monitoring.