The document discusses modern databases and NoSQL databases. It defines requirements for a modern database as scaling, adapting to change, and unleashing data. It then discusses uses of modern databases in real-time applications. New types of data from the web, mobile, and IoT require flexibility that relational databases cannot provide, leading to interest in NoSQL databases. The document outlines the history of NoSQL and describes key-value, document, column, and graph database types. It compares NoSQL to relational databases and discusses how different companies use NoSQL.