Ask HN: Resources for creating my own database

5 points by tylerpachal 10y ago ↗ HN

I know a lot about to how use different databases (SQL, Elasticsearch, Mongodb, etc), but I thought it would make an interesting project to create my own database. I have an idea of where I would start, but was hoping looking for some resources to help me out (free or paid). I tried googling around but most of the results are dominated by MS Access or SQL stuff.

Any links to books/pdfs/github repos would be awesome.

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rt2016 10y ago ↗

The accepted answer on this post has quite a bit of information: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/121653/create...

I was interested in this too at one point in time and spent some time perusing the links in the above post, but after taking the database class at my university I realized it wasn't for me. :P

Best of luck!

tedyoung 10y ago ↗

The Red Book [1] (recently updated) is a good overview and has lots of useful references. Some might be too high-level, but this paper (really a short book!) is a good start at what makes up a database: "Architecture of a Database System"[2].

Keep in mind that the scope of a "database" can be huge, so you might want to start really small, e.g., writing a basic key-value store that can support things concurrent reads & write, isolation, etc. It all depends on what interests you.

[1] http://www.redbook.io/

[2] http://www.electricmonk.nl/data/freeitebooks/fntdb07-archite...

tylerpachal 10y ago ↗

Thanks! I think I'm mainly interested in writing a graph database because there are less of them available

mindcrime 10y ago ↗

http://www.thethirdmanifesto.com/