Tiny Database Server

An in-memory database server using node.js

Installation

1. git clone https://github.com/arpith/tiny-database-server
2. cd tiny-database-server
3. npm install && npm start

Usage

The server is accessible on http://localhost:4000/

Setting a value

curl http://localhost:4000/set?key=value

Getting a value

curl http://localhost:4000/get?key=name

This will return the value previously stored.

Getting a snapshot

curl http://localhost:4000/get?snapshot=true

This will return a JSON string of the database.

Persistence

When the server starts up, a persistence client is also started that fetches a snapshot from the server every second and stores it on the filesystem. This file (database.json) is used to populate the database when the server is next started up.

Running the tests

1. Install and start the server
2. In another terminal window/tab run npm test