Phil Eaton • 1/9/2024

Writing a minimal in-memory storage engine for MySQL/MariaDB

This technical article chronicles a developer's hack week project to create a minimal in-memory storage engine for MySQL/MariaDB. Written in 218 lines of C++, it supports basic CREATE, DROP, INSERT, and SELECT operations for INTEGER-only tables. The post includes insights into MariaDB internals, building the database, writing UDFs, and compares the MariaDB storage API to PostgreSQL's. It also discusses the differences between MySQL and MariaDB.

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#c #mysql #Database Internals