Combining Ruby and C++

I’ve been discussing a conceptual project with a friend of mine and the the most effective way we’ve seen of doing it is writing the engine in C++ while the logic would be done in Ruby.
However, we would need data to be passed around often, for example:

How to organize large polyglot projects?

One of my projects started as PHP but recently some of the new functionality has been written in JavaScript on Node.js platform.

How does Polyglot Persistence handle relational data?

I have recently been studying up on microservices, and an associated idea that I’ve seen is that of polyglot persistence and microservices working with their own databases, or whatever storage they may be using. My question is how does this model handle relational data that may span more than one service?

Polyglot Node.js with Typesafe Akka for Actor Model

I have a case that needs to manipulate a large stream of JSON and inject it into Apache HBase. Our system works on Node.js with Mongo then, since we need to enhance performance, so HBase is choosen to handle the big data things.