README.md

DFDB

A simple database created for the purposes of learning database architecture.

Usage

$ stack run dfdb
Welcome to DFDB

Enter "help" to get this text
  Quit commands: :q, quit(), exit

dfdb > create table foo (string string, int int, bool bool,);
CREATE TABLE
dfdb > insert ('string', 1, true,) foo;
INSERT 1
dfdb > select (string, int,) foo where (int = 1,);
["string",1]

dfdb > create index foo_int foo (int,);
CREATE INDEX
dfdb > :q

$ stack run dfdb
Welcome to DFDB

Enter "help" to get this text
  Quit commands: :q, quit(), exit

dfdb > select (string, int,) foo where (int = 1,);
["string",1]
dfdb > drop table foo;
DROP TABLE
dfdb > select (string, int,) foo;
Table does not exist

dfdb > :q

Internals

• If you want to start from scratch, rm -rf .dfdb

Features

• create, drop table
• insert
• select
• update
• nullable/non-nullable columns
• primitive types
• persist to disk
• primary keys
• foreign keys
• indexes
• query planning
• autocommit transactions
• transactions

Benchmarks

For info about benchmarks, see benchmark.pdf.