A lot of applications these days use a NoSQL database as a result of unstructured data, write scalability, and so on. MongoDB is one such database. According to its website (http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/introduction/):
MongoDB is an open source document database that provides high performance, high availability, and automatic scaling.
Key features of MongoDB are:
High performance
High availability (automatic failover, data redundancy)
Automatic scaling (horizontal scalability)
ReactiveMongo is a Scala driver for MongoDB that supports non-blocking and asynchronous I/O operations. There is a plugin for the Play Framework called Play-ReactiveMongo. It is not a Play plugin but it's supported and maintained by the team of ReactiveMongo.
Note
This section requires prior knowledge of MongoDB, so please refer to https://www.mongodb.org/.
To use it, we need to do the following:
Include it as a dependency in the build file:
libraryDependencies ++= Seq( "org.reactivemongo" %% "play2-reactivemongo...