Haven't needed to use anything but key/value stores for the past four years, and have primarily used leveldb with great success. Ability to just npm install it removes a lot of hassle, plus it's very fast.
LevelDB is the right choice if you want to keep your persistence layer minimal. With smart choice of keys you can achieve a lot with very little. In fact, having no features can really help you to simplify your designs.
The ecosystem is good: https://github.com/Level/levelup/wiki/Modules
Particularly recommend looking into a sublevel tool like level-sublevel or level-spaces but it's also easy enough to just split your keys into namespaces yourself.
Big benefit is you can also use the same API and much of the ecosystem in the browser with tools like level-js: https://www.npmjs.com/package/level-js
timoxley 3306 days ago. link 1 point ▲ ▼