Chapter 5. Storing Node application data
This chapter covers
- In-memory and filesystem data storage
- Conventional relational database storage
- Nonrelational database storage
Almost every application, web-based or otherwise, requires data storage of some kind, and the applications you build with Node are no different. The choice of an appropriate storage mechanism depends on five factors:
- What data is being stored
- How quickly data needs to be read and written to maintain adequate performance
- How much data exists
- How data needs to be queried
- How long and reliably the data needs to be stored
Methods of storing data range from keeping data in server memory to interfacing with a full-blown database management system (DBMS), but all methods ...
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