Quick start

Open a database

Filesystem backend

With the filesystem backend, PoloDB stores data in ONE file. All the data are saved persistently on the disk.

use polodb_core::Database;
 
let db = Database::open_file("test-polo.db").unwrap();

Memory backend

With the memory backend, all the data all stored in memory, making PoloDB a pure memory database.

use polodb_core::Database;
 
let db = Database::open_memory().unwrap();

Collection

A Collection is a dataset of a kind of data. You can use create_collection to create a data collection. To obtain an exist collection, use the method collection.

let test_collection = db.collection("test");

Document

A document is a row of JSON data in PoloDB. PoloDB uses an extended JSON which supports extended types such as Data and ObjectID.

PoloDB uses the property _id as the primary key of the row of the data. If the document doesn't have an id, PoloDB will generate one automatically. Internally, PoloDB uses bson (opens in a new tab) to encode the data, which is small an fast.

An document can be constructed by the macro:

use polodb_core::bson::doc;
 
let keys = doc! {
  "user_id": 1,
};