higgle

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higgle - A Tiny JavaScript Database System

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So, yeah, it's not complete yet, but it can support simple queries and has an API similar to mongodb.

var db = new Higgle();
db.createCollection("Books");
var esums = db.collection("Books");
esums.insert({'DOC': 1,
              'Principal':'Blue',
              'Dean of Strapping':'Newlyn Joseph',
              'IPs':[5234, 7432]
             });
esums.insert({'DOC': 2,
              'Harry Potter':'JK Rowling',
              'Swag':'Newlyn Joseph'
             });
esums.insert({'DOC': 3,
              'Principal':'Blue',
              'Dean of Strapping':'Newlyn Joseph',
              'IPs':[5234, 7432]
             });
var queryresults = esums.find({'Principal':'Blue'});
console.log("Matching documents");
console.log(queryresults);

##How To Install If you're working on the client side, just include the script higgle.js. This will provide you with the Higgle object attached to the window object.

<script src="higgle.js"></script>
<script src="your_code.js"></script>

On Node.js just require the module after installing it via NPM.

$ npm install higgle
// On Node.js you must require the module in order to use the Higgle object
var Higgle = require('higgle');

##Documentation ###Creating a Database Using Higgle is super simple. The Higgle object represents your entire database. You can create an instance of one as follows:

var db = new Higgle();  // It is common convention to name your database object 'db'

###Creating a Collection Within a database you can have one or more collections. Collections are a group of JSON documents. You can create a collection by calling the following method on your database object.

db.createCollection("People");

All you must specify as an argument is a string which will be the name of the collection. You can now grab a handle to the collection by calling the following method on your database object.

var people = db.collection("People");

All you must specify as an argument is the name of the collection (the same name you used to create the collection). The variable people is a collection object which you can utilize to modify your database. ###Adding Data Adding data is super simple. Just call the following method on the collection object and specify the JSON document you want to add to the collection.

people.insert({'name': 'wiley',
               'age': 35
             });
people.insert({'name': 'smith',
               'age': 16
             });

The above code adds two JSON documents to the collection known as people. ###Querying Data ####Simple Queries Querying data is also super simple. Every query returns an array full of documents that matched the query. To perform a query call the following method on the collection object:

// This query will find all documents in the collection known as
// 'people' that have the string 'wiley' paired with the key 'name'
var queryresults = people.find({'name':'wiley'});

// You can also query with multiple JSON keys
var queryresults = people.find({'name':'wiley',
                                'age': 13
                               });

The queryresults object is an array with all the JSON documents that matched the query. ####Conditional Queries Say for example we want to know all the people who can legally drink. To perform such a query we would do the following:

// Find all documents where the key of 'age' has a value greater than 21
var queryresults = people.find({ 'age': great(21) });

Similarly, if we want to find all the documents in which the key of age has a value that is less than 21 we could perform the following query:

// Find all documents where the key of 'age' has a value less than 21
var queryresults = people.find({ 'age': less(21) });

Similarly, if we want to find documents with a key of age that takes on a certain range of values, we can do so:

// Find all documents where the key of 'age' has a value in between 6 and 24
var queryresults = people.find({ 'age': range(6, 24) });

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