Different logic models support wildly divergent use cases
Relational databases are designed with reliability and consistency at their core.
However, the advent of a new unstructured database model is turning ACID on its head.
The NoSQL database model eschews the highly structured relational model in favor of a flexible key/value store approach.
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This unstructured approach to data requires an alternative to the ACID model: the BASE model.
Instead, NoSQL relies upon a softer model known, appropriately, as the BASE model.
This model accommodates the flexibility offered by NoSQL and similar approaches to the management and curation of unstructured data.
For example, you may link to public datasets for part of your effort.
The optimal use cases for databases using ACID depend on highly structured data with predictable inputs and outputs.
However, BASE solutions are better for fuzzy subjects like sentiment analysis.
