diff --git a/backend/controllers/category.js b/backend/controllers/category.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..98a6c25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/controllers/category.js
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+const db = require("../utils/database");
+
+exports.getAllCategory = async (req, res) => {
+  try {
+    const [data, fields] = await db.execute(`SELECT * FROM Category`);
+
+    // Format as { ID: "", ID: "" }
+    const formattedData = {};
+    data.forEach((row) => {
+      formattedData[row.CategoryID] = row.Name;
+    });
+
+    res.json({
+      success: true,
+      message: "Categories fetched successfully",
+      data: formattedData,
+    });
+  } catch (error) {
+    console.error("Error fetching categories:", error);
+    return res.status(500).json({
+      success: false,
+      error: "Database error occurred",
+    });
+  }
+};
diff --git a/backend/index.js b/backend/index.js
index 7afa3fe..04c623e 100644
--- a/backend/index.js
+++ b/backend/index.js
@@ -9,12 +9,14 @@ const searchRouter = require("./routes/search");
 const recommendedRouter = require("./routes/recommendation");
 const history = require("./routes/history");
 const review = require("./routes/review");
+const category = require("./routes/category");
 
 const { generateEmailTransporter } = require("./utils/mail");
 const {
   cleanupExpiredCodes,
   checkDatabaseConnection,
 } = require("./utils/helper");
+const { getAllCategory } = require("./controllers/category");
 
 const app = express();
 
@@ -42,10 +44,10 @@ app.use("/api/search", searchRouter);
 app.use("/api/engine", recommendedRouter);
 app.use("/api/history", history);
 app.use("/api/review", review);
-
+app.use("/api/category", category);
 
 // Set up a scheduler to run cleanup every hour
-clean_up_time = 30*60*1000;
+clean_up_time = 30 * 60 * 1000;
 setInterval(cleanupExpiredCodes, clean_up_time);
 
 app.listen(3030, () => {
diff --git a/backend/routes/category.js b/backend/routes/category.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..425adc6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/routes/category.js
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+const express = require("express");
+const { getAllCategory } = require("../controllers/category");
+const router = express.Router();
+
+router.get("/", getAllCategory);
+
+module.exports = router;
diff --git a/backend/utils/database.js b/backend/utils/database.js
index 6e75c3a..379d5df 100644
--- a/backend/utils/database.js
+++ b/backend/utils/database.js
@@ -6,4 +6,8 @@ const pool = mysql.createPool({
   database: "Marketplace",
 });
 
+// const pool = mysql.createPool(
+//   "singlestore://mann-619d0:<mann-619d0 Password>@svc-3482219c-a389-4079-b18b-d50662524e8a-shared-dml.aws-virginia-6.svc.singlestore.com:3333/db_mann_48ba9?ssl={}",
+// );
+
 module.exports = pool.promise();
diff --git a/recommondation-engine/__pycache__/app.cpython-313.pyc b/recommondation-engine/__pycache__/app.cpython-313.pyc
index f5efd97..373cb26 100644
Binary files a/recommondation-engine/__pycache__/app.cpython-313.pyc and b/recommondation-engine/__pycache__/app.cpython-313.pyc differ