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Thanks :)
I think it depends on what you want to do with blobs (how many to store, typical size). You can already store them in a NeDB database as strings using base64, but I think you don't want to store too many of them (like, no more than ~300MB) since it would eat up RAM.

Another possibility, as you mention, is to use the filesystem and store only path to files in the database, but I don't think NeDB should handle that, rather NeDB users should. That could be you, or another module that uses NeDB and which I (or you !) could code.

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Thank for your feedback.
The idea is to propose an all in one package for easy store different type of data. But yes an other module could do the job.
In my case what I'm looking at is to locally store, user made canvas or/and svg files with an immutable flat version (~png), for other use. There are different way to achieve that, one being a mix of local db store + file storage for png.
Thanks.

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I think that providing native support for blobs is still outside of NeDB's scope for now. Since your large objects are immutable, I think the best way for you to store them is to use a local db store + file storage so that shouldn't be blocking :)

I may implement blob support in the future but I'll close this for now.

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