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Trade-Offs in Distributed Storage

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Explain the trade-offs between different data storage patterns in a distributed system.

Compare patterns such as centralized relational storage, distributed SQL, key-value stores, document databases, wide-column stores, graph databases, and event-sourced architectures. Explain how consistency, availability, partition tolerance, query flexibility, scalability, latency, cost, and operational complexity influence the choice.