Lazlo is a portable, compact & serverless NoSql database built using Node JS & MessagePack

Installation

• Full Database

npm install -g lazlodb

Note : You may need to give write permissions to node_modules using sudo chmod if there is a write access error

• Execute Cli

lazlo

• Lightweight Node JS Library (Official Repository : lazlo-node)

npm install lazlo-node

Storage

• Data is stored in .laz files in MessagePack encoded form. As MessagePack is smaller than JSON, it takes less space & hence the files are compact.
• Each .laz file represents a document (or a table in sql).
• All documents exist in a database, which is essentially a folder being tracked by lazlo.

Features

• Databases do not require an isolated environment. They can exist anywhere, even in your cloud folder (this will sync your database to the cloud).
• Very easy to use.
• Multiple commands for the same operation (Eg. newdoc & create doc both will create a new document).
• Interactive cli
• Extensive use of terminal styling (Eg. Success messages are displayed in green & errors are displayed in red)
• Command auto-completion available (Eg. Type create & press tab. You will get recommendations for all commands starting with create).
• Powerful inbuilt logger which logs all the transactions.
• Special features (Eg. Display all records in a document for a given creation date).

Major third party libraries used :

• vorpal js
• msgpack-lite
• chalk
• simple-node-logger
• edit-json-file

For usage info refer the docs