Mini Relational Database
Build a small relational database engine from scratch in modern C++ with zero external dependencies. You parse a subset of SQL, store rows in tables, execute selects with filtering, and persist pages to disk. A challenging project that ties together parsing, data structures, and storage.
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What You'll Build
A command-line database that accepts a subset of SQL to create tables, insert rows, and run selects with where clauses, persisting all data to a file between sessions.
Learning Objectives
- Tokenise and parse a subset of SQL with recursive descent
- Represent columns and typed values with std::variant
- Store table rows in memory and index them with std::unordered_map
- Execute select, insert, and filter operations over rows
- Serialise tables into fixed-size pages written to disk
- Manage record and page ownership with move semantics
- Report clear errors for malformed queries and type mismatches
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