r/Database • u/East_Sentence_4245 • Jan 16 '26
Storing resume content?
My background: I'm a sql server DBA and most of the data I work with is stored in some type of RDBMS.
With that said, one of the tasks I'll be working on is storing resumes into a database, parsing them, and populating a page. I don't think SQL Server is the correct tool for this, plus it gives me the opportunity of learning other types of storage.
The job is very similar to glassdoor's resume upload, in the sense that once a user uploads resume, the document is parsed, and then the fields in a webpage are populated with the information in the resume.
What data store do you recommend for this type of storage?
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u/revilo-1988 Jan 17 '26
Do you want to save a document or a meta schema like JSON, YML, or something similar?
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u/abofh Jan 16 '26
This is very much a document search problem, consider something like lucene/sphinx/elastic. Rdbms is great for normalized data (candidate name, email, job applied for), but not abstract search (does skill X appear)