This idea of **asynchronous** code described above is also sometimes called **"concurrency"**. It is different from **"parallelism"**.

**Concurrency** and **parallelism** both relate to "different things happening more or less at the same time".

But the details between *concurrency* and *parallelism* are quite different.

To see the difference, imagine the following story about burgers:

### Concurrent Burgers

А также вы можете добавить валидацию числовых данных:

* `gt`: больше (`g`reater `t`han)
* `ge`: больше или равно (`g`reater than or `e`qual)
* `lt`: меньше (`l`ess `t`han)
* `le`: меньше или равно (`l`ess than or `e`qual)

!!! info "Информация"
    `Query`, `Path` и другие классы, которые мы разберём позже, являются наследниками общего класса `Param`.

# SQL (Relational) Databases

!!! info
    These docs are about to be updated. 🎉

    The current version assumes Pydantic v1, and SQLAlchemy versions less than 2.0.

    The new docs will include Pydantic v2 and will use <a href="https://sqlmodel.tiangolo.com/" class="external-link" target="_blank">SQLModel</a> (which is also based on SQLAlchemy) once it is updated to use Pydantic v2 as well.

**FastAPI** doesn't require you to use a SQL (relational) database.

* **Intuitive**: Great editor support. <abbr title="also known as auto-complete, autocompletion, IntelliSense">Completion</abbr> everywhere. Less time debugging.
* **Easy**: Designed to be easy to use and learn. Less time reading docs.
* **Short**: Minimize code duplication. Multiple features from each parameter declaration. Fewer bugs.

    assert response.status_code == 422
    assert response.json() == IsDict(
        {
            "detail": [
                {
                    "type": "less_than",
                    "loc": ["path", "item_id"],
                    "msg": "Input should be less than 3",
                    "input": "42",
                    "ctx": {"lt": 3.0},
                }
            ]
        }
    ) | IsDict(

!!! note
    `PATCH` is less commonly used and known than `PUT`.

    And many teams use only `PUT`, even for partial updates.

    You are **free** to use them however you want, **FastAPI** doesn't impose any restrictions.

    But this guide shows you, more or less, how they are intended to be used.

### Using Pydantic's `exclude_unset` parameter

* Running on startup
* Restarts
* Replication (the number of processes running)
* Memory
* Previous steps before starting

## Memory

If you run **a single process per container** you will have a more or less well-defined, stable, and limited amount of memory consumed by each of those containers (more than one if they are replicated).