barreldb vs whirlog

Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

www.influxdata.com

featured

SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews

SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

www.saashub.com

featured

barreldb		whirlog
	Project
1	Mentions	8
151	Stars	71
-	Growth	-
2.7	Activity	1.8
5 months ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
Go	Language	Common Lisp
MIT License	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

barreldb

Posts with mentions or reviews of barreldb. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-14.

Build Your Own Fast, Persistent, Toy KV Store
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2023

I recently implemented the Bitcask paper in Golang and shared my learnings [on this post](https://mrkaran.dev/posts/barreldb/).
[GitHub](https://github.com/mr-karan/barreldb/) repo if interested.
Bitcask is an excellent paper that is not overwhelming to understand and offers a great stepping stone in building your own data stores. The simple yet powerful design of an append only file is eloquent and performant.
I’d love to read about more such implementations, if anyone has any recommendations.

whirlog

Posts with mentions or reviews of whirlog. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-22.

The “Build Your Own Database” book is finished
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Apr 2023

There are many kinds of databases, I've used similar designs to [0] (Lisp warning, ymmv) successfully in several projects.
[0] https://github.com/codr7/whirlog
Build Your Own Fast, Persistent, Toy KV Store
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2023

I've built several versions of a log based db with composite keys over the years, the most complete version so far in Common Lisp:
https://github.com/codr7/whirlog
Show HN: Minimal versioned log structured relational DB in Common Lisp
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jun 2021
A minimal single proc, mt capable, versioned, log structured relational Lisp DB
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jun 2021
Show HN: A minimalistic versioned, log-based relational database in Common Lisp
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jun 2021
Tree.h in OpenBSD: dependency-free intrusive binary tree (2002)
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2021

I have a fairly comprehensible left leaning rb tree implementation that I've been porting along my travels.
I keep it around for situations where a binary searched array isn't doable or good enough, but I still want ordered set functionality that isn't in the stdlib.
https://github.com/codr7/whirlog/blob/main/rb.lisp
https://github.com/codr7/libcodr7/blob/master/source/codr7/t...
Show HN: A simple, log-based relational database in Common Lisp
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Mar 2021

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Mar 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing barreldb and whirlog you can also consider the following projects:

dslabs - Distributed Systems Labs and Framework

illumos-gate - An open-source Unix operating system

bitcask - A log-structured hash table for fast key/value data

frr - The FRRouting Protocol Suite

rosedb - Lightweight, fast and reliable key/value storage engine based on Bitcask.

quickiebase - a pure-Python NoSQL database

nutsdb - A simple, fast, embeddable, persistent key/value store written in pure Go. It supports fully serializable transactions and many data structures such as list, set, sorted set.

build-your-own-x - Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch.