Can PayloadCMS accept OrbitDB instead of MongoDB?

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I am building an app that will be deployed on IPFS. I will be using OrbitDB for some other database functions and wanted to know if PayloadCMS could accept my OrbitDB as its backend so that then I can pull information into PayloadCMS from my other collections in OrbitDB.

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We likely won't build an official adapter for that anytime soon as it's very niche, but you could definitely build your own database adapter for OrbitDB!

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Where can I find docs for building a db adapter?

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There are no docs about building your own db adapter, but you can check out how the existing db adapters do it. Here's the postgres adapter as an example: https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/blob/beta/packages/db-postgres/src/index.ts#L73

So for your own db adapter, you'd have to provide a function for all the relevant operations like find, findOne, create, etc