How to Build a Database From Scratch: Understanding LSM Trees and Storage Engines (Part 1) | HackerNoon
Learn core database concepts by implementing a Python key-value store with crash recovery and efficient writes. In this tutorial, we’ll build a simple but functional database from scratch with Python. Through this hands-on project, we’ll explore core database concepts like Write-Ahead Logging (WAL), Sorted String Tables (SSTables), Log-Structured Merge (LSM) trees, and other optimization techniques. By the end, you’ll have a deeper understanding of how real databases work under the hood. Why Build a Database?
Duy Huynh
October 28, 2024