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DP-900 · Question #214

Your company needs to design a database that shows how changes in network traffic in one area of a network affect network traffic in other areas of the network. Which type of data store should you…

The correct answer is A. graph. Data as it appears in the real world is naturally connected. Traditional data modeling focuses on defining entities separately and computing their relationships at runtime. While this model has its advantages, highly connected data can be challenging to manage under its…

Submitted by kwame.gh· Mar 30, 2026Describe considerations for non-relational data on Azure

Question

Your company needs to design a database that shows how changes in network traffic in one area of a network affect network traffic in other areas of the network. Which type of data store should you use?

Options

  • Agraph
  • Bkey/value
  • Cdocument
  • Dcolumnar

How the community answered

(24 responses)
  • A
    75% (18)
  • B
    4% (1)
  • C
    8% (2)
  • D
    13% (3)

Explanation

Data as it appears in the real world is naturally connected. Traditional data modeling focuses on defining entities separately and computing their relationships at runtime. While this model has its advantages, highly connected data can be challenging to manage under its constraints. A graph database approach relies on persisting relationships in the storage layer instead, which leads to highly efficient graph retrieval operations. Azure Cosmos DB's Gremlin API supports the property graph model. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/graph-introduction#introduction-to-graph-

Topics

#graph database#data store selection#NoSQL#relationship modeling

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