The founding team at HarperDB built the first and only database written in Node.js. A few months back, our CEO Stephen Goldberg was invited to speak at a Women Who Code meetup to share the story of this (what some called crazy) endeavor. Stephen discussed the architectural layers of the database, demonstrated how to build a highly scalable and distributed product in Node.js, and demoed the inner workings of HarperDB. You can watch his talk at the link above, and even read a post from back in 2017, but since we all love Node.js and it’s an interesting topic, I’ll summarize here.
The main (and simplest) reason we chose to build a database in Node is that we knew it really well. We got flak for not choosing to Go, but people now accept that Go and Node are essentially head to head (in popularity and community support). Zach, one of our co-founders, recognized that with the time it would have taken to learn a new language, it would never be worth it.
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