Choosing a node.js database

Originally posted on atdatabases.org

One of the first things you’ll need to do when starting most node projects is to chose a database and database library. You’ll normally want to choose your database before you choose the library, but in the case of @databases, we support a few different databases, so you do have some leeway.

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