level-store

A streaming storage engine based on LevelDB. It is

• faster than the fs module
• local in contrast to Amazon S3
• streaming from the first byte in contrast to Amazon S3
• appending values when desired
• resuming reads when something failed
• in-process

Only need in-memory persistence and no resuming? Check out enstore.

Usage

Store a file in LevelDB under the key file and read it out again:

var levelup = require('level');
var Store = require('level-store');
var fs = require('fs');

var store = Store(levelup('/tmp/level-store'));

fs.createReadStream(__dirname + '/file.txt')
  .pipe(store.createWriteStream('file'))
  .on('close', function () {
    // file.txt is stored in leveldb now
    store.createReadStream('file').pipe(process.stdout);
  });

Live persistence

If you want to persist a stream and read from it at the same time, without reading what didn't get stored yet, you can do it like this:

// first start reading from the stored version
storage.createReadStream('stream', { live: true }).pipe(someWhere);
// then put your stream into the store
stream.pipe(storage.createWriteStream('stream'));

Resuming

When reading fails you might not want to start over again completely but rather resume after the last chunk you received. First, pass index: true as an option so you don't only get the stored chunks but also their index in the store:

store.createReadStream('file', { index: true }).on('data', console.log);
// => { index: 1363783762087, data : <Buffer aa aa> }

Now you only need store the timestamp of the last read chunk in a variable and you can resume reading after an error, passing { gt: index }:

store
  .createReadStream('file', { gt: 1363783762087, index: true })
  .on('data', console.log);
// => { index: 1363783876109, data : <Buffer bb bb> }

Indexes

You can choose from several indexing mechanisms, which are from fastest to slowest:

• timestamp: The default index. Uses timestamps of when a chunk was written. Fast and already enough for resuming. Activate with Store(db, { index : 'timestamp' }).
• chunks: The index is the number of chunks already written, starting at 0. Activate with Store(db, { index : 'chunks' }).
• TODO: bytelength: The index is the bytelength of what has already been written under the given key. Slow, but very flexible. Activate with Store(db, { index : 'bytelength' }).

Capped streams

If you don't want your stream to grow infinitely and it's ok to cut old parts off, use { capped : x } to limit to stream to x chunks:

store.createWriteStream('file', { capped : 3 }).write('...');

API

Store(db[, opts])

Returns a level-store instance.

db is an instance of LevelUp.

If opts.index is set, that indexing mechanism is used intead of the default one (timestamp).

store#createReadStream(key[, opts])

A readable stream that replays the stream stored at key.

Possible options are:

• index (Boolean|String): If true, don't emit raw chunks but rather objects having index and data fields. If a String, override the index passed to Store().
• gt (Number|String): Emit chunks that have been stored after the given position.
• gte (Number|String): Emit chunks that have been stored at or after the given position.
• lt (Number|String): Emit chunks that have been stored before the given position.
• lte (Number|String): Emit chunks that have been stored at or before the given position.
• live (Boolean): If true, the stream will stay open, emitting new data as it comes in.
• reverse (Boolean): If true, chunks will be emitted in reverse order.

store#createWriteStream(key[, opts])

A writable stream that persists data written to it under key. If something exists under key already it will be deleted.

Possible options are:

• append (Boolean): If true, possibly already existing data stored under key will be appended rather than replaced.
• capped (Number): If set, cap the stream to x chunks.
• index (String): Override the index passed to Store().

store#delete(key[, cb])

Delete everything stored under key.

store#exists(key, cb)

Check if key exists and call cb with (err, exists).

store#head(key[, opts], cb)

Get the last chunk stored under "key". "opts" are treated like in "db#createReadStream". "cb" gets called with "(err, chunk)".

store#append(key, value[, opts][, cb])

Sugar for appending just one value to key.

If opts.index is set that overrides the index passed to Store().

Installation

With npm do

$ npm install level-store

License

Copyright (c) 2013 Julian Gruber <[email protected]>

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