It is a database that stores data in a key/value pair but your values are grouped in column families. Each value in a column contains a timestamp for versioning for conflict resolution. Wide column databases offer high availability and scalability, and quite often are used for very large data sets. An example of Wide Column Database is Cassandra
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Use cases
- Ecommerce
- Content Management
- Audit Logging