Brendan McAdams gives an introduction to MongoDB and the libraries available for using it with Scala.
“Casbah provides a series of wrappers and DSL-like (AKA fluid query syntax) functionality for better utilizing MongoDB from within Scala.”
“There is absolutely no part of this project that is technically impossible with MySQL or, for that matter, any relational database. For us, this just came down to development speed.”
Hot Potato’s NYC Tech Talk on how and why they use Scala and MongoDB.
