[camus2]

> Language choice is no where near as important as your DB-access patterns (and more generally DB performance, caching, etc).

i'm pretty sure the paypal node app does not directly access the db , the node app talks to a private api.

[Helianthus]

That doesn't really change the point, it just wraps it with a layer of abstraction.

[empthought]

Well, it adds another opportunity for a chatty API to add latency.