voltraco / level-fsdown

Use the file system as a backing store for levelup

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What are the pros/cons of using the filesystem as a big key value store #2

Open fergiemcdowall opened 8 years ago

fergiemcdowall commented 8 years ago

This seems like a win/win all round- are there any disadvantages to using level-fsdown compared to leveldown? Is there a big difference in performance? Any gotchas?

heapwolf commented 8 years ago

Pros

Consistent/familiar interface, if you're using level-* for lots of things already.
A number of modules that are made to work with levelup will just work.

Cons

It's very slow (may or may not mater for some use cases)
Keys are obviously a security risk if you don't use the default encoding (limiting them in terms of characters that they can use).