Every programmer eventually creates own db: https://github.com/antonmedv/medb

Building dbs is lots of fun. I recently did a few. Some in rust and some in go. And its really interesting.

	▲	ncruces a day ago \| parent [-]
		Agreed. I went the route of building on top of something else. Sill lots of fun. https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3 And I'm still having fun. https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/pull/421

timschmidt 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And it's not complete until it can send and receive email.

nunez 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yep. I made a simple one in Bash even! (Do not recommend.)

You should've used recutils probably :)

	▲	nunez an hour ago \| parent [-]
		TIL! Sharding would be so easy! Just run "split" and spread the chunks over a bunch of servers, then run "recutils" with "parallel" to retrieve! Truly webscale.

idontneedcoffee 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No way(hides)

A file-backed hashtable isn't really a DB.

riffraff a day ago | parent | next [-]

Well, dbm (database manager) is basically that and has been called that for almost 50 years

	▲	otabdeveloper4 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		dbm isn't a database either, and people who call it that are simply wrong.

insanitybit 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If someone asked me what a DB is, I'd probably start the conversation with the exact description "a file-backed map, like a hashmap".

rcxdude 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

it's not a relational database, but those aren't the only kind.

	▲	howerj 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In fact the name "relational database" implies there are other kinds.

Why not?