Baby Dynamo DB
A distributed key value store database inspired by Amazon's Dynamo DB paper.
Why is it called Baby Dynamo DB?
This isn't a production grade project; it's more for educational purposes and helping readers capture the high level ideas of distributed systems.
This implementation in written in pure javascript/typescript with no external dependencies. Created during for a distributed systems class at Bradfield School of Computer Science
Documentation
The docs folder contains the different versions of the database as I was creating them
Format of Repo
Every numbered folder (ex; v1, v2, v3) contains my code as I was incrementally improving the system. The reason it's done like this is for educational purposes. Every folder is fully self-contained
Features
- Custom binary protocol
- Consistent hash table
- database backups
TODO
- Lots of stuff isn't implemented. In the future I'd like to get around an implementing the following features which were described in the Dynamo paper:
- a consensus protocol like the gossip based one in the dynamo paper
- implement anti-entropy with Merkle trees
- implement write ahead log format
- implement logshipping
- implement a version using protobufs for my data serialization
Development
Just cd into one of the folders prefixed with a v and launch your editor from there.