What are you using for your database, library/framework, and way to interact with the API's?

MongoDB, Express and NodeJS, REST API

Why did you choose these?

Previous BUILD ON group chose MongoDB.

• Reasons For choosing MongoDB
• Reasons For choosing Node.JS/Express

What potential challenges can you foresee? (what questions do you have about this implementation to which you don’t have answers?)

• A downside of NoSQL is that most solutions are not as strongly ACID-compliant (Atomic, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) as the more well-established RDBMS systems.
• Complex transaction
• No function or stored procedure exists where you can bind the logic

Research of Databases

MongoDB

MongoDB is a document-oriented NoSQL database used for high volume data storage.

Pros:

• Schema-less. If you have a flexible schema, this is ideal for a document store like MongoDB. This is difficult to implement in a performant manner in RDBM
• It’s fast and easy to use.
• Ease of scale-out. The scale reads by using replica sets. Scale writes by using sharding (auto-balancing). Just fire up another machine and away you go. Adding more machines = adding more RAM over which to distribute your working set.
• Cost. Depends on which RDBMS of course, but MongoDB is free and can run on Linux, ideal for running on cheaper commodity kit.