Standard data store or Data store 2?

[jamee625]

Just wana know if i should be using standard data store or data store 2.
Might be a stupid question…

[sjr04 (uep)]

@sjr04

It all depends on your use case, if you want to be more free with how you use data stores, then don’t use DataStore2. DataStore2 is simply a module to handle player-based data that helps prevent data loss (notice helps, it cannot guarantee total data loss protection). If you don’t want to be tied to that limitation, then don’t use it. There is also ProfileService, which is handles session-locking, and a few more things, and is also a bit more free in that it doesn’t tie you down to player-based data only, but I guess different modules have different goals.

Just depends on the use case, really

[jakebball11]

Datastore2 isnt a different data store. Its a simple module that makes saving data using the standard data store easier. Overall though I recommend ProfileService since its customizable.

[jamee625]

I’ve made a really simple standard data store for saving everything in a folder.

local dataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local dataStore = dataStoreService:GetDataStore("InventorySave")
game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local data
	local inventory = Instance.new("Folder", player) -- wen player joins. Tools stored will be sent here
	inventory.Name = "Inventory"
	local success, errorMSG = pcall(function()
		data = dataStore:GetAsync(player.UserId)
	end)
	if data ~= nil then
		for i, v in pairs(data) do
			local twool = game.ReplicatedStorage.shoptools:FindFirstChild(v)
			if twool then
				local newTwool = twool:Clone()
				newTwool.Parent = inventory
				
			end
		end
	
	end
end)


game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	local inventory = player.Inventory
	local invTable = {}

	for i, v in pairs(inventory:GetChildren()) do
		if game.ReplicatedStorage.shoptools:FindFirstChild(v.Name) then
			table.insert(invTable, v.Name)
		end

	end
	local success, errorMSG = pcall(function()
		dataStore:SetAsync(player.UserId, invTable)
	end)
end)

Is this the method i should be using for this purpose?

[jamee625]

Seen profile service coming up more frequently, thanks for the info. Will consider using it.

[Wqund (p1rate)]

As others mentioned, it’s up to you, afterall you can script your own module or system for saving/processing data.
There are plenty of choices, ProfileService, DS2, etc. each of them has their own features, what I advise you to do, is to check each data store in part and try working with them on separate baseplates, see which one you’re mostly comfortable with and use it.