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node-ssdb

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ssdb nodejs/iojs client library, ssdb is a fast nosql database, an alternative to redis.

v0.3.0 (and higher versions) are not backward-compactiable with old versions(0.2.x).

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Ports

Python port: https://github.com/hit9/ssdb.py
Lua ngx client: https://github.com/eleme/lua-resty-ssdb

Supported Engines

node.js >= v0.10.30
iojs >= 1.0.4

Requirements

ssdb 1.6.8.8+

Installation

$ npm install ssdb

Example

The traditional Node.js way:

var ssdb = require('ssdb');
var pool = ssdb.createPool();
var conn = pool.acquire();

conn.set('key', 'val', function(err, data) {
  if (err) {
    throw err;
  }
  // data => '1'
});

Work with tj/co, make it thunkify or promisify:

var co = require('co');

var pool = ssdb.createPool({promisify: true});
var conn = pool.acquire();

co(function *(){
  var key = 'key';
  var a = yield conn.set(key, 'val');
  var b = yield conn.get(key);
  console.log(a, b);  // 1 'val'
}).catch(function(err) {
  console.error(err)
});

node-ssdb uses v8 native Promise to implement promisify, which requires nodejs v0.11.13+

To use bluebird as promise implementation (which is much faster than v8 native promise):

// use bluebird promise
global.Promise = require('bluebird').Promise;

Callback Parameters

Callback functions have two parameters: error, data;

on status_ok: only error is undefined;
on status_not_found: error and data are both undefined
on status_error, status_fail, status_client_error: only data is undefined.

Error Handling

var ssdb = require('ssdb');
var pool = ssdb.createPool();

pool.acquire().set('key', 'val', function(err, data) {
  if (err && err instanceof ssdb.SSDBError)
    throw err;  // ssdb error
});

Poolling Policies

There are 2 poolling policies avaliable: 'least_conn' and 'round_robin' (the default), e.g.

var pool = ssdb.createPool({policy: ssdb.Pool.policies.least_conn});

API References

createPool(options)

To make a ssdb client:

var ssdb = require('ssdb');
var pool = ssdb.createPool();

options (with default values):

{
  host: '0.0.0.0',
  port: 8888,
  auth: undefined,  // ssdb server auth password
  authCallback: function(err, data) {if (err) throw err;},  // callback function on auth
  size: 1,  // connection pool size
  timeout: 0,
  promisify: false,  // make api methods promisify.
  thunkify: false,  // make api methods thunkify.
  policy: Pool.policies.round_robin,
}

Note: auth requires ssdb v1.7.0.0+

pool.acquire()

Acquire a connection from pool.

pool.destroy()

Close all connections in the pool. (note that if a connection is closed, it will reconnect to ssdb server automatically if you reuse this conn to send commands, and the same with pool.)

pool.create(options)

Create a new connection and add it to the pool.

command names

ssdb.commands

SSDB API Documentation

Detail docs for ssdb interfaces can be found at: https://github.com/hit9/ssdb.api.docs

FAQ

Pipeline?
Node-ssdb pipelines automatically because node.js has async IO, this is different with other clients in sync IO languages (i.e. Python), node-ssdb always pipelines.
Commands & Callbacks ordering ?
On a single connection, the callbacks are run the same order as the commands are sent, TCP guarantees this: the stream will arrive in the same order as it was sent.

Connection Pool?

ssdb is a multiple-threading server, so the connection pool is required. Here are some examples to use the connection pool:

// async io and executed in order on the remote end.
var conn = pool.acquire();
yield conn.set('key', 'val');
yield conn.get('key');
// async io and executed parallely on the remote end.
yield [
  pool.acquire().set('key1', 'val1');
  pool.acquire().set('key2', 'val2');
];