modules of course). You can **think of it as a SQLite for Node.js projects**, which
can be used with a simple `require` statement. The API is a subset of MongoDB's. You can use it as a persistent or an in-memory only datastore.
**NeDB is not intended to be a replacement of large-scale databases such as MongoDB!** Its goal is to provide you with a clean and easy way to query data and persist it to disk, for web applications that do not need lots of concurrent connections, for example a <ahref="https://github.com/louischatriot/braindead-ci"target="_blank">continuous integration and deployment server</a> and desktop applications built with <ahref="https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit"target="_blank">Node Webkit</a>.