The document discusses 8 database paradigms: 1) key-value, 2) wide-column, 3) relational, 4) document oriented, 5) graph, 6) multi-model, 7) full-text search, and 8) time series. It provides brief examples of each paradigm, such as storing user data with keys and values for key-value, storing rows with columns for wide-column, and storing nodes and relationships for graph databases. The document aims to outline the main types of database organizations.