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Document DB s are known to be very good at searching data among billions or trillions of records , with little or no performance degradation. At the same time, they have one big limitation: they do not play well with too many relationships between entities. Databases are an essential part of most IT systems, as they are the containers of the most valuable “piece of the puzzle”: the Data .  Relational Databases ( RDBMS ) have been playing a major role in the Data Architecture , being a sort of standard in the software industry; products such as Oracle , Microsoft Sql Server , MySql have been used for almost any software or services worldwide for several years. Those are by now considered mature technologies, tested and refined over the years to cope with constantly challenging data requirements and new software paradigms coming up all the time. However, since a few years, Social Media Networks systems such as Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn (to name a few), intro...