Show HN: GoSQL – A query engine in 319 LoC

51 pointsposted 7 hours ago
by archiewood
(github.com)

5 Comments

stevekemp

2 hours ago

Nice job.

You can see this post for the start of a guide in implementing something very similar "Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go":

https://notes.eatonphil.com/database-basics.html

(Use the tag "sql" to find the later parts. Sadly not linked directly from that first one.)

eatonphil

2 hours ago

Thanks for mentioning! One of the most fun parts of this series I think is handling indexes on INSERT and actually making use of them based on (effectively) pattern matching on WHERE clauses.

> (Use the tag "sql" to find the later parts. Sadly not linked directly from that first one.)

There's a "Note" section right below that title that links to the other posts. :) I guess it is UX feedback that this was not obvious to spot.

iamcreasy

2 hours ago

Nice. I also wanted to know the details behind database engine and ACID compliance. So, decided to follow Database Design and Implementation by Edward Sciore, and re-implemented the database in Python: https://github.com/quazi-irfan/pySimpleDB

This db treats file as raw disk and reads and writes in blocks. In the book, your step 3 and 4 will be a start of a transaction that uses recovery manager to log changes introduced by the query, and buffer manager to page in and out file blocks in memory. This book uses serializable isolation, so if buffer pool is full and can't page in new block or if another transactions are writing to that same block - the newer transaction will be rolled back after a brief wait.

coredog64

4 hours ago

This is very handy given the recent de-emphasizing of S3 Select by AWS.