--- title: EP193: Database Types You Should Know in 2025 | daily.dev description: A comprehensive overview of 13 database types for modern applications, including relational, columnar, key-value, in-memory, time-series, graph, document,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ep193-database-types-you-should-know-in-2025-u8gki1svr twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: EP193: Database Types You Should Know in 2025 | daily.dev og:description: A comprehensive overview of 13 database types for modern applications, including relational, columnar, key-value, in-memory, time-series, graph, document,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ep193-database-types-you-should-know-in-2025-u8gki1svr og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/u8gKi1SVR.png og:image:alt: EP193: Database Types You Should Know in 2025 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # EP193: Database Types You Should Know in 2025 **[ByteByteGo](https://daily.dev/sources/bytebytego)** · 7 min read · 11 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A comprehensive overview of 13 database types for modern applications, including relational, columnar, key-value, in-memory, time-series, graph, document, vector, and others. 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