UTD-CRSS / exploreapollo-api

API server for the exploreapollo.org application
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Postgres Integration #3

Closed austinpray closed 8 years ago

austinpray commented 8 years ago

Driver

https://github.com/brianc/node-postgres

Guide

http://expressjs.com/guide/database-integration.html#postgres

Some tools to evaluate

More resources: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome-nodejs/tree/f4d40dc54ca5d704a260f24cc41ca577f31805cf#database

Discussion Needed

I don't think we should use an ORM. I don't think we are doing anything massively complex query-wise and our database is going to be effectively read only anyway. We should discuss this though once we have some idea of the schema.