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 Key-value stores provide high performance and are often used for simple data models or for rapidly-changing data, such as an in-memory cache layer.  Since they offer only a limited set of operations, complexity is shifted to the application layer if additional operations are needed.
 
-A key-value store is the basis for more complex system systems such as a document store, and in some cases, a graph database.
+A key-value store is the basis for more complex systems such as a document store, and in some cases, a graph database.
 
 ##### Source(s) and further reading: key-value store