Whenever we want to persist data we always look forward to saving it in databases, which are mainly divided into two categories—SQL and NoSQL. There are a number of databases under each category that can be used depending on the business use case because each one has different characteristics and serves a different purpose.
In this chapter, we will integrate a Go web application with the most famous open source databases—MySQL and MongoDB and learn to perform CRUD operations on them. As we will use MySQL and MongoDB, I assume both of the databases are installed and running on your local machine.
