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encryptionelectronlocal-database

local database with encryption to use in Electron app

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I'm build an Electron app which is basically a search. I have a bunch of documents converted to JSON - over 1000000 documents.

I've tried LokiJS with cryptedFileAdapter, which starts acting weird over 800000 documents, lowdb, which is really slow and probably gets slower on every new document. Also, pouchdb doesn't work well with Electron.

Maybe there some simpler(maybe custom) solution for searching such large amount of data? They must be stored encrypted while not needed for search(when app is closed).

Solution

  • Ended up creating two database files with ~600 000 records in each. Search is done in both databases and results are merged.