What are the best uses of document stores?

Question

I have been hearing a lot about document oriented data stores like CouchDB. I understand the uses of BigTable like stores such as Cassandra. After reading this question, I was w

Answer 1

Another feature of CouchDB is that you can create those aggregations, not as documents stored manually, but as views (which are derived from the stored data, and updated automatically.)

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