Zero Disk Architecture

I recently learned about Galloping Search while building a distributed log called s3-log. It’s used to search sorted items when the upper bound is unknown. In this short post, I will share my notes and other alternatives I discovered for searching over unbounded items

In this third part of the series, I will show how we can implement a durable, distributed, and highly available log using S3

Most databases don’t do checksums by default. Disk corruptions go silently unnoticed.

SQLite does not do checksums by default. Disk corruptions go silently unnoticed.

a brief introduction to disaggregated storage systems in context of database systems