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Build your own DBMS!!

By Idan Shoham, idan@m-tech.ab.ca

Roll your own DBMS?!?

Author: Idan Shoham

Document release date: May 28, 1997

 
• Introduction
• A little history
• Problems with off-the-shelf technology
• Summary of design requirements
• Architectural answers to design questions
• The components
  • Client software
  • Database and network protocols
  • Server software
• Bonus features
• A working system!
• A solution looking for new problems
• References
• About this document ...

Copyright © 1997, Idan Shoham
Published in Issue 23 of the Linux Gazette, December 1997