What way to save the data received from the API to use?

Question

PHP

Good evening,
Please share your experience, who works (or rather saves) the data received from the api. (suppose the amount of data is calculated in thousands and the data is given in json format). What method of saving do you use - directly call the php function in which you save the data to the necessary tables, or do you use some other method?
What to use in terms of the least load on the server.

Answer 1

structured - in relational databases (Muskul, Postgre)
unstructured - in NoSQL (Monga)
, however, the first Jason can also already