SIRIXDB

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

SirixDB is a database system designed for embedding, focusing on temporal and evolutionary data management. It adopts an append-only strategy for storing immutable versions, ensuring the complete history of each resource is preserved. Each commit in SirixDB creates a space-efficient snapshot via structural sharing. The system is built on a log-structured model that avoids data overwriting and implements an innovative versioning technique at the page level.