diff --git a/docs/overview/architecture-overview.md b/docs/overview/architecture-overview.md index a3c15aa480..035be95769 100644 --- a/docs/overview/architecture-overview.md +++ b/docs/overview/architecture-overview.md @@ -267,14 +267,14 @@ require a database to work with. The Backstage backend and its built-in plugins are based on the [Knex](http://knexjs.org/) library, and set up a separate logical database per plugin. This gives great isolation and lets them perform migrations and evolve -separate from each other. +separately from each other. -The Knex library supports a multitude of databases, but Backstage is at the time -of writing tested primarily against two of them: SQLite, which is mainly used as +The Knex library supports a multitude of databases, but Backstage at this time +of writing is tested primarily against two of them: SQLite, which is mainly used as an in-memory mock/test database, and PostgreSQL, which is the preferred production database. Other databases such as the MySQL variants are reported to work but -[aren't tested as fully](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/issues/2460) +[aren't fully tested](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/issues/2460) yet. ## Cache