# Where does the Apollo store our data?

**URL:** <https://community.apollographql.com/t/where-does-the-apollo-store-our-data/3794>\
**Category:** Server\
**Tags:** server\
**Created:** [June 19, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.apollographql.com/t/where-does-the-apollo-store-our-data/3794 "2022-06-19T16:12:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![wiki4zhang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.apollographql.com/wiki4zhang/32/2557_2.png) [@wiki4zhang](https://community.apollographql.com/u/wiki4zhang)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.apollographql.com/t/where-does-the-apollo-store-our-data/3794/1 "2022-06-19T16:12:20Z")

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Hello, I want to know where Apollo stores the data, or do we need to create our own database (using nosql or mysql?)

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**Author:** ![dariuszp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.apollographql.com/dariuszp/32/2512_2.png) [@dariuszp](https://community.apollographql.com/u/dariuszp)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2022, 8:58am UTC](https://community.apollographql.com/t/where-does-the-apollo-store-our-data/3794/2 "2022-06-20T08:58:40Z")

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You do it just like you would do with any node.js app out there.

There are few data sources ready, working out of the box you might want to check out

> **[Data sources](https://www.apollographql.com/docs/apollo-server/data/data-sources/#open-source-implementations)**
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> Manage connections to databases and REST APIs