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# TyDB

Strongly-typed, NoSQL, fast, light-weight, embedded, Mongo-like database with built-in ODM.

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## Introduction

TyDB is a database system written in typescript, its goal is to provide a strongly-typed database experience with an API and a query language similar to MongoDB.

* It can be in-memory, or persistent (using a persistence adapter).
* It can be used with NodeJS or in the browser.
* It can be embedded or served over a network (like MongoDB).
* The query language and the API is very similar to MongoDB, (except for the dot notation) and the difference is only to provide and experience with maximum type declaration.
* Persisted in a flat file when in node (using a persistence adapter), persisted in IndexedDB when in the browser (using another adapter), and you can easily write your own adapter too.
* Can deal with large data sets (tested against 1GB of data) and won't take too much memory.
* It is fast.
* It is light-weight (45 KB, not gzipped).
* Based on NeDB.

![Different ways of instantiating the database](https://3422004128-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M5x-OYpWMkttcJ8qdHj%2F-M671f5rYkuEFmVA0wP5%2F-M676op4rh2RPaqQOiV5%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=a6b03142-ea5e-49ba-9160-ddf6b9ddb228)