BinaryTableDB, or from now on "BTable", is a local database file architecture, in which you are free to code your own interpreter, meaning that you are responsible about how exactly the data is encoded in a stream. This gives speed advantages as there will be very little overhead compared to other solutions.
We can compare the data structure to be like a CSV file, but in completely binary version.
In order to specify encoding/decoding procedures you must implement ICustomSerializable to the class representing a row.
Run this command in your .Net project dir.
dotnet add package BinaryTableDB --version 1.0.0
There are two different blocks of data in every BTable file version 1, header and body.
| Name | Size | Type | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Signature | 3-byte | String | BT | BTable signature header |
| Version | 1-byte | Integer | 1 | Data-structure version |
| Row width | 4-byte | Integer | Variable | The number of bytes every row has |
The body holds all the rows the BTable has. There can be infinite amount of rows.