For relational database, I normally use MySQL. I do use Redis before and I have considered using couchdb. However, MongoDB seems popular and works well with Python. The MongoDB I am using is the 8.0 Community Edition on Ubuntu.
You can use python or nodeJS to connect. You can also use Mongodb with PHP Drupal v11 as a module. Most of the examples here are using mongosh @ port 27017.
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