Building a Database from Scratch

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Barrel is a document-oriented database implemented in Erlang that uses a C binding for a low-level storage layer. It provides a document storage engine, a SQL engine, master–master replication and a REST API, and describes concrete read/write concurrency patterns plus continuous automated indexing with production results and latency/consistency tradeoffs.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 5:31Database constraints
3. 10:55Transaction challenges
4. 16:47Conflict management
5. 23:15Modern database evolution
6. 30:41Case studies
7. 37:10Conclusion

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