A traditional database stores structured data in tables with rows and columns, using SQL for queries. Businesses rely on it for transactions, inventory, and customer records, benefiting from ACID compliance and predictable performance. Banks, retailers, and ERP systems use these databases daily, though they scale vertically and suit well-defined, relational data rather than unstructured or massive distributed workloads.
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