NE DB (Node Embedded DataBase)

Embedded persistent database for Node.js, with no dependency (except npm modules of course). The API is the same as MongoDB.

It's still experimental! I'm still stabilizing the code. The API will not change though. Don't hesitate to file issues/PRs if you find bugs.

Why?

I needed to store data from another project (Braindead CI). I needed the datastore to be standalone (i.e. no dependency except other Node modules) so that people can install the software using a simple npm install. I couldn't find one without bugs and a clean API so I made this one.

Installation, tests

It will be published as an npm module once it is finished. To launch tests: npm test.

API

It's a subset of MongoDB's API (the most used operations).

Creating/loading a database

var Datastore = require('nedb')
  , db = new Datastore('path/to/datafile');
  
db.loadDatabase(callback);   // Callback is optional and has signature err

Performance

Speed

It is pretty fast on the kind of datasets it was designed for (10,000 documents or less). On my machine (3 years old, no SSD), with a collection with 10,000 documents:

• An insert takes 0.1ms
• A read takes 5.7ms
• An update takes 62ms
• A deletion takes 61ms

Read, update and deletion times are pretty much non impacted by the number of concerned documents. Inserts, updates and deletions are non-blocking. Read will be soon, too (but they are so fast it is not so important anyway).

You can run the simple benchmarks I use by executing the scripts in the benchmarks folder. They all take an optional parameter which is the size of the dataset to use (default is 10,000).

Memory footprint

For now, a copy of the whole database is kept in memory. For the kind of datasets expected this should not be too much (max 20MB) but I am planning on stopping using that method to free RAM and make it completely asynchronous.

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013 Louis Chatriot <louis.chatriot@gmail.com>

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