You may all know that JSON is a subset of JavaScript, but... Did you know that HTML5 implements NoSQL databases? Did you know that JavaScript was recommended for REST by Roy T. Fielding himself? Did you know that map & reduce are part of the native JavaScript API? Did you know that most NoSQL solutions integrate a JavaScript engine? CouchDB, MongoDB, WakandaDB, ArangoDB, OrientDB, Riak.... And when they don't, they have a shell client which does... The story of NoSQL and JavaScript goes beyond your expectations and open more opportunities than you might imagine... What better match could you find than a flexible and dynamic language for schemaless databases? Isn't, an event-driven language what you were waiting for to manage eventually consistency? When NoSQL doesn't come to JavaScript, JavaScript comes to NoSQL, and does it very well...