# Overview

## Initialize

{% hint style="info" %}
You can initialize as many databases as you want
{% endhint %}

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Commonjs" %}
{% code lineNumbers="true" %}

```javascript
const Dubnium = require('dubnium') 
const db = new Dubnium('dirPath','ext', useConfig)
```

{% endcode %}
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="ECMAScript" %}
{% code lineNumbers="true" %}

```javascript
import Dubnium from 'dubnium'
new Dubnium('dirPath','ext')
```

{% endcode %}
{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

## Make your first Record

{% code lineNumbers="true" %}

```javascript
db.create('tag', content)
```

{% endcode %}

## Get a Record

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="From Tag" %}
{% code lineNumbers="true" %}

```javascript
db.get('tag')
```

{% endcode %}
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="From value" %}
{% code lineNumbers="true" %}

```javascript
db.getFromValue('key','value',returnType) //JSON Only
```

{% endcode %}

`returnType` info can be found [here](/2/miscellaneous.md#returntype)
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="All" %}
{% code lineNumbers="true" %}

```javascript
db.getAll(returnType)
```

{% endcode %}

`returnType` info can be found [here](/2/miscellaneous.md#returntype)
{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

## Delete a Record

{% code lineNumbers="true" %}

```javascript
db.get('tag').delete()
```

{% endcode %}

## Modify a Record

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Data (JSON only)" %}
{% code lineNumbers="true" %}

```javascript
db.get('tag').setValue("key","new value")
```

{% endcode %}

For non-JSON, use [`overwrite()`](/2/modify.md#overwrite)
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Tag" %}
{% code lineNumbers="true" %}

```javascript
db.get("old_tag").setTag("new_tag")
```

{% endcode %}
{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

#### Check out our full docs for more API methods and in-depth explanations.


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