I built a storage engine from scratch. Here’s everything I learned.
The article discusses the author's experience building a custom storage engine named Stratum from scratch. Stratum is designed to store structured data efficiently, utilizing a log-structured, hierarchical approach with O(1) lookup times. The author shares insights into the architecture, data model, and challenges faced during development.
- ▪Stratum is a log-structured, hierarchical storage engine built in C++ and exposed over gRPC.
- ▪The engine allows for efficient storage and retrieval of documents with associated input and output nodes.
- ▪It employs an append-only write strategy and background compaction to manage data efficiently.
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