essentials/creating-stores/store/"><code>Store</code></a> objects, and cannot be used to persist the metadata of a <a href="/api/mergeable-store/interfaces/mergeable/mergeablestore/"><code>MergeableStore</code></a>.</p><p>As well as providing a reference to the <a href="/api/the-essentials/creating-stores/store/"><code>Store</code></a> to persist, you must provide a <code>db</code> parameter which identifies the database instance.</p><p>A database <a href="/api/the-essentials/persisting-stores/persister/"><