Mongo DB

Background

The purpose of the Bridge API is to collect information from the Stacks and Bitcoin blockchain sources, aggregate it into a single data source and make it available to the sBTC Bridge Client application.

Why Mongo DB

Mongo is a no sql lightweight, document oriented database, that is great for aggregating this type of stateless data.

Mongo DB in the Bridge

PR 21 moves the dependency on Mongo DB to a cloud based Mongo service.

Reasons for making this change are to support;

• high availability
• scalability
• redundancy

of the database related services. Mongo cloud also provides better visualisation, analytics and management of the database layer.