fortunejs/fortune

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1450 stars · 116 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Fortune.js is a non-native graph database abstraction layer for Node.js and web browsers that implements graph-like features such as bi-directional relationships, inverse updates, and referential integrity at the application level. It provides a common CRUD interface over pluggable database adapters including in-memory, IndexedDB, MongoDB, Postgres, and NeDB.

Use cases

• add bi-directional relationships to any database
• make application storage portable across database backends
• share the same data models between server and client
• maintain referential integrity and inverse updates automatically
• build a data layer for a micro-blogging or social app
• persist data in the browser with IndexedDB

When to choose

• you need graph-like relationships without running a native graph database
• you want to swap database adapters without changing application code
• you want one data model shared across Node.js server and browser client

When to avoid

• you need native graph database query performance or traversal algorithms
• you need a full-featured ORM with complex query building and migrations
• you need an actively developed project with frequent releases

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

database orm databases web-development backend browser database-abstraction graph-database data-access-layer database-adapter referential-integrity browser-storage nodejs javascript

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