By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: March 29, 2012
Scala is designed as an alternative language for the Java platform, with a focus on scalability. MongoDB has added official support for Scala with the release of Casbah, a Scala driver for MongoDB. Casbah is built around the existing MongoDB Java Driver to give it a strong foundation, but designed to take advantage of many of the idioms of Scala such as a strong collections library, fluid syntax for building DSLs and functional concepts like closures and currying. Because it is designed to be easy to work with for Scala users, Casbah introduces a more 'friendly' syntax for creating MongoDB Objects, using Scala's Map syntax.
