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By building a REST API, developers can create a foundation upon which either internal teams or a broader ecosystem can incorporate content or functionality into modern applications. Because most apps will need to persist data in some sort of database store, building APIs that expose CRUD (create, read, update, delete) functions on popular databases is often a critical requirement.
Common database choices include open source solutions such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. With AnyPresence JustAPIs, developers can easily build and deploy APIs on top of these databases, wherever they happen to be hosted, be it in the cloud or on premises.
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MongoDB is a popular document-oriented NoSQL database that stores data in JSON-like format and allows developers to perform SQL-like queries against it. In this article, we will walk through a brief tutorial to illustrate how easy it is to build and deploy an API on top of your MongoDB instance.