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EJDB - Embedded JSON Database engine

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EJDB - Embedded JSON Database engine

It aims to be a fast MongoDB-like library which can be embedded into C/C++ applications under terms of LGPL license.

EJDB is the C library based on modified version of Tokyo Cabinet.

JSON representation of queries and data implemented with API based on C BSON

Features

  • LGPL license allows you to embed this library into proprietary software.
  • MongoDB-like queries and overall philosophy.
  • Collection level write locking.
  • Collection level transactions.
  • String token matching queries: $stror $strand
  • Node.js binding

Documentation

NodeJS binding

One snippet intro

var EJDB = require("ejdb");
//Open zoo DB
var jb = EJDB.open("zoo", EJDB.DEFAULT_OPEN_MODE | EJDB.JBOTRUNC);

var parrot1 = {
    "name" : "Grenny",
    "type" : "African Grey",
    "male" : true,
    "age" : 1,
    "birthdate" : new Date(),
    "likes" : ["green color", "night", "toys"],
    "extra1" : null
};
var parrot2 = {
    "name" : "Bounty",
    "type" : "Cockatoo",
    "male" : false,
    "age" : 15,
    "birthdate" : new Date(),
    "likes" : ["sugar cane"]
};

jb.save("parrots", [parrot1, parrot2], function(err, oids) {
    if (err) {
        console.error(err);
        return;
    }
    console.log("Grenny OID: " + parrot1["_id"]);
    console.log("Bounty OID: " + parrot2["_id"]);

    jb.find("parrots",
            {"likes" : "toys"},
            {"$orderby" : {"name" : 1}},
            function(err, cursor, count) {
                if (err) {
                    console.error(err);
                    return;
                }
                console.log("Found " + count + " parrots");
                while (cursor.next()) {
                    console.log(cursor.field("name") + " likes toys!");
                }
                cursor.close(); //It's not mandatory to close cursor explicitly
                jb.close(); //Close the database
            });
});

Installation

System libraries:

  • g++
  • cunit
  • zlib

On Debian/Ubuntu linux you can install it as follows:

   sudo apt-get install g++ libcunit1 libcunit1-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev

Installation from node package manager:

npm install ejdb

EJDB NodeJS API

### EJDB.open(dbFile, openMode)

Open database. Return database instance handle object.
Default open mode: JBOWRITER | JBOCREAT.
This is blocking function.

Arguments

  • {String} dbFile Database main file name
  • {Number} [openMode=JBOWRITER | JBOCREAT] Bitmast of open modes: - JBOREADER Open as a reader. - JBOWRITER Open as a writer. - JBOCREAT Create if db file not exists - JBOTRUNC Truncate db.

### close()

Close database.
If database was not opened it does nothing.
This is blocking function.


### isOpen() Check if database in opened state.
### ensureCollection(cname, copts)

Automatically creates new collection if it does't exists. Collection options copts applied only for newly created collection. For existing collections copts takes no effect.
This is blocking function.

Arguments

  • {String} cname Name of collection.
  • {Object} [copts] Collection options.

### removeCollection(cname, prune, cb)

Remove collection.

Call variations:

removeCollection(cname)
removeCollection(cname, cb)
removeCollection(cname, prune, cb)

Arguments

  • {String} cname Name of collection.
  • {Boolean} [prune=false] If true the collection data will erased from disk.
  • {Function} [cb] Callback args: (error)

### save(cname, jsarr, cb)

Save/update specified JSON objects in the collection. If collection with cname does not exists it will be created.

Each persistent object has unique identifier (OID) placed in the _id property. If a saved object does not have _id it will be autogenerated. To identify and update object it should contains _id property.

Call variations:

save(cname, json object, [cb])
save(cname, <Array of json objects>, [cb])

Arguments

  • {String} cname Name of collection.
  • {Array|Object} jsarr Signle JSON object or array of JSON objects to save
  • {Function} [cb] Callback args: (error, {Array} of OIDs for saved objects)

### load(cname, oid, cb)

Loads JSON object identified by OID from the collection.

Arguments

  • {String} cname Name of collection
  • {String} oid Object identifier (OID)
  • {Function} cb Callback args: (error, obj) obj: Retrieved JSON object or NULL if it is not found.

### remove(cname, oid, cb)

Removes JSON object from the collection.

Arguments

  • {String} cname Name of collection
  • {String} oid Object identifier (OID)
  • {Function} cb Callback args: (error)

### find(cname, qobj, orarr, hints, cb) Execute query on collection. EJDB queries inspired by MongoDB (mongodb.org) and follows same philosophy.
Supported queries:
  - Simple matching of String OR Number OR Array value:
      -   {'json.field.path' : 'val', ...}
  - $not Negate operation.
      -   {'json.field.path' : {'$not' : val}} //Field not equal to val
      -   {'json.field.path' : {'$not' : {'$begin' : prefix}}} //Field not begins with val
  - $begin String starts with prefix
      -   {'json.field.path' : {'$begin' : prefix}}
  - $gt, $gte (>, >=) and $lt, $lte for number types:
      -   {'json.field.path' : {'$gt' : number}, ...}
  - $bt Between for number types:
      -   {'json.field.path' : {'$bt' : [num1, num2]}}
  - $in String OR Number OR Array val matches to value in specified array:
      -   {'json.field.path' : {'$in' : [val1, val2, val3]}}
  - $nin - Not IN
  - $strand String tokens OR String array val matches all tokens in specified array:
      -   {'json.field.path' : {'$strand' : [val1, val2, val3]}}
  - $stror String tokens OR String array val matches any token in specified array:
      -   {'json.field.path' : {'$stror' : [val1, val2, val3]}}
  - $exists Field existence matching:
      -   {'json.field.path' : {'$exists' : true|false}}

NOTE: Negate operations: $not and $nin not using indexes
      so they can be slow in comparison to other matching operations.

NOTE: Only one index can be used in search query operation.

QUERY HINTS (specified by `hints` argument):
  - $max Maximum number in the result set
  - $skip Number of skipped results in the result set
  - $orderby Sorting order of query fields.
      Eg: ORDER BY field1 ASC, field2 DESC
      hints:    {
                  "$orderby" : {
                      "field1" : 1,
                      "field2" : -1
                  }
                }

Many C API query examples can be found in `tcejdb/testejdb/t2.c` test case.

To traverse selected records cursor object is used:
  - Cursor#next() Move cursor to the next record and returns true if next record exists.
  - Cursor#hasNext() Returns true if cursor can be placed to the next record.
  - Cursor#field(name) Retrieve value of the specified field of the current JSON object record.
  - Cursor#object() Retrieve whole JSON object with all fields.
  - Cursor#reset() Reset cursor to its initial state.
  - Cursor#length Read-only property: Number of records placed into cursor.
  - Cursor#pos Read/Write property: You can set cursor position: 0 <= pos < length
  - Cursor#close() Closes cursor and free cursor resources. Cursor cant be used in closed state.

Call variations of find():
   - find(cname, qobj, cb)
   - find(cname, qobj, hints, cb)
   - find(cname, qobj, qobjarr, cb)
   - find(cname, qobj, qobjarr, hints, cb)

Arguments

  • {String} cname Name of collection
  • {Object} qobj Main JSON query object
  • {Array} [orarr] Array of additional OR query objects (joined with OR predicate).
  • {Object} [hints] JSON object with query hints.
  • {Function} cb Callback args: (error, cursor, count) cursor: Cursor object to traverse records count: Total number of selected records

### findOne(cname, qobj, orarr, hints, cb) Same as #find() but retrieves only one matching JSON object.

Call variations of findOne():

findOne(cname, qobj, cb)
findOne(cname, qobj, hints, cb)
findOne(cname, qobj, qobjarr, cb)
findOne(cname, qobj, qobjarr, hints, cb)

Arguments

  • {String} cname Name of collection
  • {Object} qobj Main JSON query object
  • {Array} [orarr] Array of additional OR query objects (joined with OR predicate).
  • {Object} [hints] JSON object with query hints.
  • {Function} cb Callback args: (error, obj) obj Retrieved JSON object or NULL if it is not found.

### count(cname, qobj, orarr, hints, cb) Convenient count(*) operation.

Call variations of count():

count(cname, qobj, cb)
count(cname, qobj, hints, cb)
count(cname, qobj, qobjarr, cb)
count(cname, qobj, qobjarr, hints, cb)

Arguments

  • {String} cname Name of collection
  • {Object} qobj Main JSON query object
  • {Array} [orarr] Array of additional OR query objects (joined with OR predicate).
  • {Object} [hints] JSON object with query hints.
  • {Function} cb Callback args: (error, count) count: Number of matching records.

### sync(cb) Synchronize entire EJDB database with disk.

Arguments

  • {Function} cb Callback args: (error)

### dropIndexes(cname, path, cb) Drop indexes of all types for JSON field path.

Arguments

  • {String} cname Name of collection
  • {String} path JSON field path
  • {Function} [cb] Optional callback function. Callback args: (error)

### optimizeIndexes(cname, path, cb) Optimize indexes of all types for JSON field path. Performs B+ tree index file optimization.

Arguments

  • {String} cname Name of collection
  • {String} path JSON field path
  • {Function} [cb] Optional callback function. Callback args: (error)

### ensureStringIndex(cname, path, cb) ### ensureNumberIndex(cname, path, cb) ### ensureArrayIndex(cname, path, cb)

Ensure index presence of String|Number|Array type for JSON field path

Arguments

  • {String} cname Name of collection
  • {String} path JSON field path
  • {Function} [cb] Optional callback function. Callback args: (error)

### rebuildStringIndex(cname, path, cb) ### rebuildNumberIndex(cname, path, cb) ### rebuildArrayIndex(cname, path, cb)

Rebuild index of String|Number|Array type for JSON field path

Arguments

  • {String} cname Name of collection
  • {String} path JSON field path
  • {Function} [cb] Optional callback function. Callback args: (error)

### dropStringIndex(cname, path, cb) ### dropNumberIndex(cname, path, cb) ### dropArrayIndex(cname, path, cb)

Drop index of String|Number|Array type for JSON field path

Arguments

  • {String} cname Name of collection
  • {String} path JSON field path
  • {Function} [cb] Optional callback function. Callback args: (error)

EJDB C Library

One snippet intro

#include <tcejdb/ejdb.h>

static EJDB *jb;

int main() {
    jb = ejdbnew();
    if (!ejdbopen(jb, "addressbook", JBOWRITER | JBOCREAT | JBOTRUNC)) {
        return 1;
    }
    //Get or create collection 'contacts'
    EJCOLL *coll = ejdbcreatecoll(jb, "contacts", NULL);

    bson bsrec;
    bson_oid_t oid;

    //Insert one record:
    //JSON: {'name' : 'Bruce', 'phone' : '333-222-333', 'age' : 58}
    bson_init(&bsrec);
    bson_append_string(&bsrec, "name", "Bruce");
    bson_append_string(&bsrec, "phone", "333-222-333");
    bson_append_int(&bsrec, "age", 58);
    bson_finish(&bsrec);
    //Save BSON
    ejdbsavebson(coll, &bsrec, &oid);
    fprintf(stderr, "\nSaved Bruce");
    bson_destroy(&bsrec);

    //Now execute query
    //QUERY: {'name' : {'$begin' : 'Bru'}} //Name starts with 'Bru' string
    bson bq1;
    bson_init_as_query(&bq1);
    bson_append_start_object(&bq1, "name");
    bson_append_string(&bq1, "$begin", "Bru");
    bson_append_finish_object(&bq1);
    bson_finish(&bq1);

    EJQ *q1 = ejdbcreatequery(jb, &bq1, NULL, 0, NULL);

    uint32_t count;
    TCLIST *res = ejdbqrysearch(coll, q1, &count, 0, NULL);
    fprintf(stderr, "\n\nRecords found: %d\n", count);

    //Now print the result set records
    for (int i = 0; i < TCLISTNUM(res); ++i) {
        void *bsdata = TCLISTVALPTR(res, i);
        bson_print_raw(stderr, bsdata, 0);
    }
    fprintf(stderr, "\n");

    //Dispose result set
    tclistdel(res);

    //Dispose query
    ejdbquerydel(q1);
    bson_destroy(&bq1);

    //Close database
    ejdbclose(jb);
    ejdbdel(jb);
    return 0;
}

Building & Installation

Prerequisites

System libraries:

  • gcc
  • cunit
  • zlib

On Debian/Ubuntu linux you can install it as follows:

   sudo apt-get install gcc libcunit1 libcunit1-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev

Building

   cd ./tcejdb
   ./configure --disable-bzip --prefix=<installation prefix> && make && make check
   make install
  • library name: tcejdb (with pkgconfig)
  • main include header: <tcejdb/ejdb.h>

C API

EJDB API presented in ejdb.h C header file.

JSON processing API: bson.h

Queries

/**
 * Create query object.
 * Sucessfully created queries must be destroyed with ejdbquerydel().
 *
 * EJDB queries inspired by MongoDB (mongodb.org) and follows same philosophy.
 *
 *  - Supported queries:
 *      - Simple matching of String OR Number OR Array value:
 *          -   {'json.field.path' : 'val', ...}
 *      - $not Negate operation.
 *          -   {'json.field.path' : {'$not' : val}} //Field not equal to val
 *          -   {'json.field.path' : {'$not' : {'$begin' : prefix}}} //Field not begins with val
 *      - $begin String starts with prefix
 *          -   {'json.field.path' : {'$begin' : prefix}}
 *      - $gt, $gte (>, >=) and $lt, $lte for number types:
 *          -   {'json.field.path' : {'$gt' : number}, ...}
 *      - $bt Between for number types:
 *          -   {'json.field.path' : {'$bt' : [num1, num2]}}
 *      - $in String OR Number OR Array val matches to value in specified array:
 *          -   {'json.field.path' : {'$in' : [val1, val2, val3]}}
 *      - $nin - Not IN
 *      - $strand String tokens OR String array val matches all tokens in specified array:
 *          -   {'json.field.path' : {'$strand' : [val1, val2, val3]}}
 *      - $stror String tokens OR String array val matches any token in specified array:
 *          -   {'json.field.path' : {'$stror' : [val1, val2, val3]}}
 *      - $exists Field existence matching:
 *          -   {'json.field.path' : {'$exists' : true|false}}
 *
 *  NOTE: Negate operations: $not and $nin not using indexes
 *  so they can be slow in comparison to other matching operations.
 *
 *  NOTE: Only one index can be used in search query operation.
 *
 *  QUERY HINTS (specified by `hints` argument):
 *      - $max Maximum number in the result set
 *      - $skip Number of skipped results in the result set
 *      - $orderby Sorting order of query fields.
 *          Eg: ORDER BY field1 ASC, field2 DESC
 *          hints:    {
 *                      "$orderby" : {
 *                          "field1" : 1,
 *                          "field2" : -1
 *                      }
 *                    }
 *
 * Many query examples can be found in `testejdb/t2.c` test case.
 *
 * @param EJDB database handle.
 * @param qobj Main BSON query object.
 * @param orqobjs Array of additional OR query objects (joined with OR predicate).
 * @param orqobjsnum Number of OR query objects.
 * @param hints BSON object with query hints.
 * @return On success return query handle. On error returns NULL.
 */
EJDB_EXPORT EJQ* ejdbcreatequery(EJDB *jb, bson *qobj, bson *orqobjs, int orqobjsnum, bson *hints);

Examples

You can find some code samples in:

  • tcejdb/samples
  • tcejdb/testejdb

Basic EJDB architecture

EJDB database files structure

.
├── <dbname>
├── <dbname>_<collection1>
├── ...
├── <dbname>_<collectionN>
└── <dbname>_<collectionN>_<fieldpath>.<index ext>

Where

  • <dbname> - name of database. It is metadata DB.
  • <collectionN> - name of collection. Collection database.
  • <fieldpath> - JSON field path used in index
  • <index ext> - Collection index extension:
    • .lex String index
    • .dec Number index
    • .tok Array index

Limitations/TODOs

  • Case insensitive string indexes
  • Collect collection index statistic
  • Windows port

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Package last updated on 10 Nov 2012

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