Sorted String Table in plain JS

A fast, compact, and memory efficient way to load a lot of key-value pairs into Javascript from a server/file/etc.

• Near-zero copy loading means near super fast loading of large datasets
• Integrated prefix compression helps keep file sizes small
• Maps string keys to string values

The general intended pattern to follow with this package is to:

1. Create a .sst file from a javascript object
2. Host it on your server (out of the scope of this project)
3. Load it on a client computer
   • Download it to a client (or read it from a local file) into an ArrayBuffer
4. Use as a read-only key-value store

Usage

Install using npm install sstab

Generate an sst file from some existing data

var sst = require('sstab')

var fs = require('fs')

var buf = sst.build({ a: '1', b: '2', c: '3', d: '4' }) // Serialize some object

fs.writeFileSync('data.sst', buf)

Load in client

var sst = require('sstab');

var fs = require('fs');

var buf = fs.readFileSync('data.sst');

var tab = sst.load(buf);

tab.get('b') // This will equal '2'