https://github.com/jcblw/motm-levelup

Module of the Month - Levelup
https://github.com/jcblw/motm-levelup

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Module of the Month - Levelup

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jcblw/motm-levelup
• Owner: jcblw
• Created: 2013-12-01T19:25:49.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-05-12T14:09:03.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-11T14:39:04.788Z (about 1 month ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 2.93 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Module of the Month - Levelup

Levelup is a high level abstraction of leveldb. This allows you to use leveldb to store and lookup items in leveldb && More

# LevelDB? 

[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LevelDB)

LevelDB is a fast & [extensable](https://github.com/rvagg/node-levelup/wiki/Modules#wiki-plugins) embedable data store that is use as the backend for Google Chromes indexDB.

[Benchmarks](http://leveldb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/benchmark.html)

### Interesting Projects using LevelDB

[maxogden/dat](https://github.com/maxogden/dat)

# Settup

Just like any other npm module the library is install via

```

npm install levelup leveldown --save

```

`leveldown` provides low level bindings for levelup but is [not a depedency](https://github.com/rvagg/node-levelup#leveldown)

# Basics

`index.js` will be the basics, just reading an writing things to the database. 

# Events

`events.js` will be a demo of bind to event when adding data or removing data to leveldb.

# Streams

`streams.js` will show how streams can be used to read or write data to leveldb.