# Data Store

Skill · Databases

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/data-store

A data store is any repository used to hold data for use by applications, ranging from simple flat files to relational databases, key-value stores, and cloud object storage systems. The term is often used generically to describe where an application persists and retrieves its data, regardless of the specific underlying technology. Software architects and engineers choose a data store based on factors like data structure, access patterns, and consistency needs.

Related skills: [Database Design](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/database-design), [Relational Databases](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/relational-databases), [Data Persistence](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/data-persistence)

## Open roles requiring Data Store (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.