superqd / taffydb

TaffyDB - an open source JavaScript Database for your browser

TaffyDB (taffy.js)

TaffyDB is an opensouce library that brings database features into your JavaScript applications.

Introduction

How you ever noticed how JavaScript object literals look a lot like records? And that if you wrap a group of them up in an array you have something that atcs a lot like a database table? TaffyDB brings powerful database funtionality to that concept and rapidly improves the way you work with data inside of JavaScript.

What makes it sticky

• Extremely fast
• Powerful JavaScript centric data selection engine
• Database inspired features such as insert, update, unique, count, etc
• Robust cross browser support
• Easily extended with your own functions
• Compatible with any DOM library (jQuery, YUI, Dojo, etc)

Create a DB

Just pass in JSON:

var products = TAFFY([{
  "item":1,
	"name":"Blue Ray Player",
	"price":99.99
}, {
    "item":2,
    name:"3D TV",
    price:1799.99
}]);

Find data

Use JSON to compare:

var item1 = products({item:1});
// where item is equal to 1
var lowPricedItems = products({price:{lt:100}});
// where price is less than 100
var blueRayPlayers = products({name:{like:"Blue Ray"}});
// where name is like "Blue Ray"

Use data

// update the price of the Blue Ray Player to 89.99
products({item:1}).update({price:89.99});
// loop over the records and call a function
products().each(function (r) {alert(r.name)});
// get first record
products().first();
// get last record
products().last();
// sort the records by price descending
products.sort("price desc");
// select only the item names into an array
products().select("name"); // returns ["3D TV","Blue Ray Player"]
// inject values from a record into a string template
var row = products({item:2}).supplant("<tr><td>{name}</td><td>{price}</td></tr>");
// row now equal to "<tr><td>3D TV</td><td>17999.99</td></tr>"

Documentation, support, updates

View more docs and examples, get support, and get notified of updates:

Web: http://taffydb.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/biastoact

Software License Agreement (BSD License)

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