It sounds like the core problem is syncing data between a local DB or local cache of a DB and a remote DB. You might consider couchDB/pouchDB as an alternative to mongo, since it has a really good built-in syncing story.
If you really want to use MongoDB, you could consider having a local instance running and using replication ( http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/replication/) but I'm not sure what the performance characteristics would be. It would probably be better/faster/simpler to use something that can be embedded locally, like pouchDB. There are a lot of people that use Memcached or Redis as a caching layer for Mongo, so you should be able to find lots of articles around the net for how to do that, but the use-case for caching data for a web server is a bit different than caching data for a local game and you might find that these solutions don't work well for your needs. Since this is a game, you might prefer to have memcached/redis embedded rather than running in a separate process. It doesn't look like redis can do this, but for memcached there is https://code.google.com/p/ememcached/. LevelDB is a popular embedded database foundation with a lot of active work in the node community building on top of it -- there is an application cache layer built on it (https://npmjs.org/package/hangar) and a couch implementation on it (https://npmjs.org/package/couchup) that you may find useful. Overall, there aren't a lot of perfect-fit or ready-made solutions to your problem in node because node is more commonly used for implementing servers -- it's not commonly used for local applications or games. -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
