@databases VS Lowdb

At Databases because you don't need ORM.

Depending on the complexity of your queries, Prisma might indeed not be the best abstraction for you. If you're proficient in SQL and don't want to sacrifice type-safety, there are really nice, low-level alternatives to Prisma such as Zapatos, Slonik or atdatabases. We're laying this out in our docs here: Should you use Prisma?

I built https://www.atdatabases.org to make this as easy as possible to get right when querying SQL databases with node.js

Depends a lot on the size of your database records. We’ve found that for a few tables with big JSONB columns it can make a huge difference but for 90% of queries it makes very little difference. https://www.atdatabases.org with @databases/pg-typed or @databases/mysql-typed also keeps the types in sync with which columns you select.

Since the method is marked as async, you can use await to get the results of a query (if your database library supports promises. For example with https://www.atdatabases.org as your db library you could do

I found Prisma close but not quite there. That's part of what motivated me to keep working on https://www.atdatabases.org, which I think is already there as an enterprise ready ORM for node.js

I built https://www.atdatabases.org which has an ORM for node.js, but also supports writing SQL queries in a safe way. It is type safe, and has much simpler & more flexible transaction support than most node.js ORMs.

If you’re using TypeScript and don’t have untrusted user data, @databases can generate static types, which can be a good alternative to runtime validation.

Did either of you consider @databases? It has pretty much the same approach to SQL as Slonik. I’m curious if there’s any reason why Slonik is preferable?

https://github.com/typicode/lowdb is a cool option.

I just finished the first stable version of go-store, a lightweight embeeded database written in pure Go. It was heavily inspired by lowdb. The motivation was that I needed something simple to store information for another project and that I wanted to try out Go's generics.

https://jsondb.io/ or https://github.com/typicode/lowdb

By default, requests are stored locally in a JSON file with the help of LowDB.

For 1: Don't.* For 2: You're looking for a cache. I've published an OS npm module. Looking at the code might help: https://github.com/tq-bit/qache/blob/master/src/Cache.ts For 3: Maybe the code of lowdb can point you in the right direction: https://github.com/typicode/lowdb/tree/main/src

Another thing you might consider is literally using the filesystem as a database. There are plenty of vanillla ways to simply read/write to JSON or you could even use a JSON based db github.com/typicode/lowdb again you don't need to think about it as a db your just handling JS objects.

I did want something performant so that I would (hopefully) not run into issues when there are around 100-ish clients connected at the same time. I looked at low-db for a while but did not like that it would JSON.stringify my whole database on every change, which could become a problem when it becomes to big.