The HN database, is one of the most powerful features in HN. But working with this database is a bit diffrent then the normal databases. There are also a lot of features that are hard to accomplish with a normal database. This page will give you an overview of what is special about the HN database.

You create your application database in the HN management console. This page will show you how to do this.

Connecting with the HN database can be done in two ways. Directly against the HN Api, but also with a library you can import into your development project. These both will be discussed in this chapter.

In this chapter we will actually start storing data into the HN database aswel as pulling data from the HN database. You should have a working connection setup to a HN database.