diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 1d97a68c7..69297052b 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 members = [
     "meilidb",
     "meilidb-core",
+    "meilidb-data",
     "meilidb-tokenizer",
 ]
 
diff --git a/meilidb-data/Cargo.toml b/meilidb-data/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..82d1bd8d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meilidb-data/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+[package]
+name = "meilidb-data"
+version = "0.1.0"
+authors = ["Kerollmops <renault.cle@gmail.com>"]
+edition = "2018"
+
+[dependencies]
+sled = "0.20.0"
diff --git a/meilidb-data/src/database.rs b/meilidb-data/src/database.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7f52dccda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meilidb-data/src/database.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+use std::path::Path;
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+#[derive(Clone)]
+pub struct Database(sled::Db);
+
+impl Database {
+    pub fn start_default<P: AsRef<Path>>(path: P) -> sled::Result<Database> {
+        sled::Db::start_default(path).map(Database)
+    }
+
+    pub fn open_index(&self, name: &str) -> sled::Result<Index> {
+        let name = format!("index-{}", name);
+        let bytes = name.into_bytes();
+
+        self.0.open_tree(bytes).map(Index)
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct Index(Arc<sled::Tree>);
diff --git a/meilidb-data/src/lib.rs b/meilidb-data/src/lib.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4308ec6ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meilidb-data/src/lib.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+mod database;
+
+pub use self::database::{Database, Index};