Summary

This chapter started by explaining what cloud-native databases are and that we selected MongoDB as the database for our application because the cloud version of MongoDB coheres well with the principles of the microservices architecture.

Next, we learned about NoSQL databases and how they differ from relational databases. This also led us to the vocabulary for MongoDB, where collections are the counterpart of tables.

Then, we prepared MongoDB for our application and created our first database and collection. Finally, we mapped the CRUD operations and their counterpart HTTP methods in anticipation of the RESTful API we’ll build for processing the data in our application.

With this, we have completed the data layer of our application, and we’re set for the next chapter, where we’ll learn about developing RESTful APIs with DRF.