Evan Prodromou

A simple, high-performance engine for distributing social activities.

Databank is an abstraction tool for document stores or key-value stores in Node.js. My goal is to hedge my bets by using a simple CRUD + search interface for interacting with a datastore. If at some point I really need the special snowflake features of Redis or MongoDB or Cassandra or Riak or ... [More] whatever, I should be able to bust out of this simple abstraction and use their native interface without rewriting a lot of code. I also want the data structures stored to look roughly like what someone experienced with the datastore would expect. I chose the name "databank" since it's not in widespread use and won't cause name conflicts, and because it sounds like something a 1960s robot would say. [Less]