Interesting

• ​Mentat - Persistent, relational store inspired by Datomic and DataScript.

• ​RocksDB - Persistent Key-Value Store for Flash and RAM Storage.

• ​goleveldb - LevelDB key/value database in Go.

• ​TiDB - Distributed HTAP database compatible with the MySQL protocol.

• ​tikv - Distributed transactional key-value database, originally created to complement TiDB.

  • ​pd - Placement driver for TiKV.

• ​Noria - Dynamically changing, partially-stateful data-flow for web application backends.

• ​RethinkDB - Pushes JSON to your apps in realtime.

• ​RedixDB - Persistent real-time key-value store, with the same redis protocol with powerful features.

• ​AresDB - GPU-powered real-time analytics storage and query engine.

• ​Sophia - Modern transactional key-value/row storage library.

• ​Bolt - Pure Go key/value store inspired by Howard Chu's LMDB project.

• ​InfluxDB - Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics.

• ​EdgeDB - Open-source object-relational database built on top of PostgreSQL.

• ​Scylla - Drop-in Apache Cassandra alternative big data database that powers your applications with ultra-low latency and extremely high throughput, while reducing TCO to a fraction of most NoSQL databases. OSS.

• ​JanusGraph - Open-source, distributed graph database.

Tools

• ​TablePlus​

Links

• ​Stanford DB course​

• ​Algebraic Query Language - Schemas as categories, DB instances as functors, provable data migration as functor composition.

• ​David Nolen: Out of the Tarpit, Revisited (2017)​

• ​syncing-thesis - Syncing strategies for mobile apps.

• ​Storage Performance Development Kit - Provides a set of tools and libraries for writing high performance, scalable, user-mode storage applications.

• ​Let's Build a Simple Database - Writing a sqlite clone from scratch in C.

• ​Readings in Databases - List of papers essential to understanding databases and building new data systems.

• ​Dbmate - Lightweight, framework-agnostic database migration tool.

• ​Turning the database inside-out with Apache Samza (2015)​

• ​Designing Data Intensive Applications Book - Deep dives into different types of data storage solutions, their history, and how they actually work.

• ​Scalable SQL and NoSQL Data Stores - Good paper that helps differentiate similar but different datastores. Really helpful when you're trying to pick a modern data solution.

• ​"Transactions: myths, surprises and opportunities" by Martin Kleppmann (2015)​