You will see examples of this in the next chapters, about relational and NoSQL databases, security, etc.

## **FastAPI** compatibility { #fastapi-compatibility }

The simplicity of the dependency injection system makes **FastAPI** compatible with:

* all the relational databases
* NoSQL databases
* external packages
* external APIs
* authentication and authorization systems

Here's a little bit of that history.

## Alternatives { #alternatives }

I have been creating APIs with complex requirements for several years (Machine Learning, distributed systems, asynchronous jobs, NoSQL databases, etc), leading several teams of developers.

As part of that, I needed to investigate, test and use many alternatives.

The history of **FastAPI** is in great part the history of its predecessors.

You can use the `jsonable_encoder` to convert the input data to data that can be stored as JSON (e.g. with a NoSQL database). For example, converting `datetime` to `str`.

{* ../../docs_src/body_updates/tutorial001_py310.py hl[28:33] *}

`PUT` is used to receive data that should replace the existing data.

* `tags: List[str] = []` has a default of an empty list: `[]`.

but you might want to omit them from the result if they were not actually stored.

For example, if you have models with many optional attributes in a NoSQL database, but you don't want to send very long JSON responses full of default values.

### Use the `response_model_exclude_unset` parameter { #use-the-response-model-exclude-unset-parameter }

    * Cookies, etc.

Plus all the security features from Starlette (including **session cookies**).

All built as reusable tools and components that are easy to integrate with your systems, data stores, relational and NoSQL databases, etc.

### Dependency Injection { #dependency-injection }

It's the most popular Python framework and is widely trusted. It is used to build systems like Instagram.

It's relatively tightly coupled with relational databases (like MySQL or PostgreSQL), so, having a NoSQL database (like Couchbase, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc) as the main store engine is not very easy.

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* 🌐 Add Chinese translation for `docs/tutorial/security/first-steps.md`. PR [#3841](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/3841) by [@jaystone776](https://github.com/jaystone776).
* 🌐 Add Japanese translation for `docs/ja/docs/advanced/nosql-databases.md`. PR [#4205](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/4205) by [@sUeharaE4](https://github.com/sUeharaE4).