The Database For The People.
This project is not a political statement. It is inspired by the Khelish word "Geth," meaning "Servant of the People."
The project is purely experimental and is where I explore various aspects of database design. I aim to test specific data structures and observe their behavior in real-life scenarios.
This is a side project that I work on during my spare time. It is not production-ready, and most of the code is undocumented. Although the code is written entirely in Rust, performance is not a primary focus.
The codebase should compile on any 64-bit platform supported by the Rust compiler. So far, it has been tested on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Please note that Linux will remain the primary target
The core engine is a NoSQL, append-only, and immutable database with the following key features:
- Custom binary format for storing data, based on Protobuf 2.
- Indexing is achieved through a homemade LSM tree implementation.
- Client communication is handled via gRPC.
- Full-featured REPL for database interaction.
- Capability to spawn programs using the Pyro programming language.
- Cluster functionality using a homemade Raft implementation (though it is not fully integrated yet).
This is the features I want to work on
- Complete benchmark suite
- Support other programming languages for spawn processes, most likely Lua
- Introduce plugins
- Exposes the database core as a programmable platform.