It is pretty fast on the kind of datasets it is designed for (10,000
**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 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>.
As such, it was not designed for speed. That said, it is still pretty fast on the expected datasets (10,000
documents max). On my machine (3 years old, no SSD), with a collection