Is there a relational database that serves records in JSON? [closed]

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I know there are tons of NOSQL databases that chose JSON as the native format in which the data is stored. I wonder if there is a relational database (operates on plain tuples rather than hierarchical documents) that serves records as JSON objects and as convenient to use from under NodeJS as, say MongoDB is.

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As a relational database, Postgres has the capability to store JSON columns, see here for example. It's performance is also rather sleek.

Answer 2

There are a number of ORMs which support mapping relational databases to JSON objects which can be manipulated in Node:

• http://sequelizejs.com/
• https://github.com/dresende/node-orm2
• https://github.com/balderdashy/waterline