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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 continuous integration and deployment server and desktop applications built with Node Webkit.
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## Installation, tests
Module name on npm is `nedb`.