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## API
-It's a subset of MongoDB's API (the most used operations).
+It's a subset of MongoDB's API (the most used operations).
* Creating/loading a database
* Persistence
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* Browser version
### Creating/loading a database
-You can use NeDB as an in-memory only datastore or as a persistent datastore. One datastore is the equivalent of a MongoDB collection. The constructor is used as follows `new Datastore(options)` where `options` is an object with the following fields:
+You can use NeDB as an in-memory only datastore or as a persistent datastore. One datastore is the equivalent of a MongoDB collection. The constructor is used as follows `new Datastore(options)` where `options` is an object with the following fields:
* `filename` (optional): path to the file where the data is persisted. If left blank, the datastore is automatically considered in-memory only. It cannot end with a `~` which is used in the temporary files NeDB uses to perform crash-safe writes
* `inMemoryOnly` (optional, defaults to false): as the name implies.
@@ -110,13 +110,13 @@ You can also set automatic compaction at regular intervals with `yourDatabase.pe
Keep in mind that compaction takes a bit of time (not too much: 130ms for 50k records on a typical development machine) and no other operation can happen when it does, so most projects actually don't need to use it.
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+Durability works similarly to major databases: compaction forces the OS to physically flush data to disk, while appends to the data file do not (the OS is responsible for flushing the data). That guarantees that a server crash can never cause complete data loss, while preserving performance. The worst that can happen is a crash between two syncs, causing a loss of all data between the two syncs. Usually syncs are 30 seconds appart so that's at most 30 seconds of data. This post by Antirez on Redis persistence explains this in more details, NeDB being very close to Redis AOF persistence with `appendfsync` option set to `no`.
### Inserting documents
The native types are `String`, `Number`, `Boolean`, `Date` and `null`. You can also use
arrays and subdocuments (objects). If a field is `undefined`, it will not be saved (this is different from
-MongoDB which transforms `undefined` in `null`, something I find counter-intuitive).
+MongoDB which transforms `undefined` in `null`, something I find counter-intuitive).
If the document does not contain an `_id` field, NeDB will automatically generated one for you (a 16-characters alphanumerical string). The `_id` of a document, once set, cannot be modified.