Datastore

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A Datastore is a repository for storing, managing and distributing data sets on an enterprise level. It is a broad term, which incorporates all types of data that is produced, stored and used by an organization. The term refers specifically to data that is at rest and used by one or more data-driven applications, services or individuals. A Database is a kind of datastore, but there are datastores that are not Databases, for example W3C Document Object Model (DOM) compliant documents or JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) files.

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