📦 globalstorage is a modular distributed database for JavaScript and the Web—featuring blockchain integrity, local-first sync, CRDTs, and smart contracts.
- Distributed architecture with global unique IDs and deterministic replication
- Blockchain log for tamper-proof operation history
- JavaScript Smart Contracts executed within your app
- CRDT synchronization for offline-first and P2P support
- Local-first storage: supports
fs,IndexedDB, andOPFS - Metaschema-driven domain modeling for validation and sync
- CAS operations for consistency and concurrency safety
- Web-ready: works in Web browsers and Node.js runtime
- Secure transport via
metacomprotocol and WebSocket - Crypto support: RSA, SHA-256, and more
- Built-in integration with Impress Application Server
- Local-first apps
- Real-time collaboration tools
- P2P distributed systems
- Full-stack JavaScript projects
- Blockchain-based data pipelines
- Built-in database engine will minimize interprocess communication to access data
- Minimize data transformations: all data slould be stored, stansmitted, handled and placed in RAM in the same format
- Maximum memory usage, read-ahead and lazy-write, minimizing data conversion
- Using metadata everywhere, special declarative format for subject domein representation (including fields, relations, and indices), memory structures, GUI, API, etc.
- The same API for client-side runtime and server-side runtime:
- server-side storage engine
- client-side storage engine (multiple implementations for different platforms including mobile, desktop and browser)
- sharding for distributed storage of large data amounts, geo-distribution, save backup copies, access load balancing
- allows user to exchange data in P2P mode
- Syncronization between client and server in realtime (close to realtime) and in lazy mode
- Offline-first approach: applications can work in online and offline (with locally stored data)
- Bidirectional data sync with CRDT and hieratchical versioning like git have
- Global data structures unification for applications working with Metarhia technological stack and Impress application server
- Ability to work with non-unified data structures (custom schemas), specific to certain subject domain
- Data structures have global distributed identification system, so data can be inserted anywhere and will not bring ID conflicts
- Data reliability is provided by distributed storage facilities, so each data structure should have master server and multiple backup and cache servers; using those servers globalstorage supports addressing, versioning and branching
See github for full contributors list
