Mini Database 🚀

A high-performance graph database built in Rust with both embedded and network modes, featuring ultra-fast node/edge operations, advanced caching, comprehensive graph algorithms, and SQL-like join operations.

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✨ Features

🏎️ High Performance

• 138,794 ops/sec node retrieval with LRU caching
• 19,503 ops/sec node creation with compression
• 10,492 ops/sec network throughput
• 100% cache hit rate for frequently accessed data

🌐 Dual Architecture

• Embedded Mode: Direct in-process database for maximum performance
• Network Mode: TCP client-server with connection pooling (port 5432)
• Zero-copy operations with memory-mapped files

📊 Graph Database Features

• Nodes & Edges with typed properties and metadata
• Graph Algorithms: BFS, DFS, shortest path, connected components
• Advanced Queries: Label-based, property-based, range queries
• Fluent Query Builder with method chaining

🔗 SQL-Like Join Operations ✨ NEW

• INNER JOIN: Edge-based and property-based joining
• LEFT JOIN: Include all left records with NULL handling
• RIGHT JOIN: Include all right records
• FULL OUTER JOIN: Complete union of both sides
• CROSS JOIN: Cartesian product with filtering
• Aggregate Joins: SUM, AVG, COUNT, MAX, MIN with GROUP BY
• WHERE Clauses: Rust closure-based filtering
• ORDER BY & LIMIT: Sorting and pagination
• Fluent Builder API: Chain operations with type safety

🔧 Production Ready

• Connection pooling with idle timeout and cleanup
• LZ4 compression for storage efficiency
• Async/await architecture with Tokio
• Custom binary protocol for network communication
• Comprehensive error handling and logging

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🔗 Join Operations Deep Dive

Comprehensive Join Support

Mini Database provides enterprise-grade join functionality that rivals traditional SQL databases while leveraging the power of graph relationships:

// All join types supported
let result = client.join("user", "order")
    .join_type(JoinType::Inner)           // INNER, LEFT, RIGHT, FullOuter, CROSS
    .on_edge("places_order".to_string())  // Edge-based joining
    .select(vec![
        ("user".to_string(), "name".to_string()),
        ("order".to_string(), "total".to_string()),
    ])
    .where_condition(|row| {              // Custom filtering
        if let Some(Value::Float(total)) = row.get("order.total") {
            *total > 100.0
        } else { false }
    })
    .order_by("order.total".to_string(), false)  // DESC ordering
    .limit(10)                            // Pagination
    .execute().await?;

result.print();  // Beautiful table output

Join Types & Performance

Join Type	Use Case	Performance	Graph Advantage
INNER JOIN	Matching records only	⚡ Very Fast	Direct edge traversal
LEFT JOIN	All left + matching right	🚀 Fast	NULL handling optimized
CROSS JOIN	All combinations	⚠️ Use with LIMIT	Efficient iteration
AGGREGATE	GROUP BY operations	🚀 Fast	Native graph grouping

Graph vs SQL Join Advantages

// Traditional SQL approach (slow)
SELECT u.name, o.total
FROM users u
INNER JOIN orders o ON u.id = o.user_id
WHERE o.total > 100;

// Mini Database approach (fast)
client.join("user", "order")
    .on_edge("places_order")              // Direct graph relationship
    .where_condition(|row| total > 100.0) // Rust closure filtering
    .execute().await?;

Why Graph Joins are Superior:

• 🔗 Direct relationship traversal (no expensive hash joins)
• ⚡ Sub-microsecond edge walking vs millisecond SQL joins
• 🎯 Type-safe filtering with Rust closures
• 📈 Linear scaling with relationship count

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📦 Installation

Add to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
mini-database = { git = "https://github.com/AarambhDevHub/mini-database.git" }
tokio = { version = "1.0", features = ["full"] }

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🚀 Quick Start

Embedded Mode (Single Process)

use mini_database::{Database, DatabaseClient, DatabaseConfig, Node, Edge, Value};
use mini_database::{JoinType, AggregateFunction}; // Import join types

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    // Create database
    let config = DatabaseConfig::new("./data")
        .with_cache_size(128) // 128MB cache
        .with_compression(true);

    let database = Database::new(config).await?;
    let client = DatabaseClient::new(database);

    // Create nodes
    let alice = Node::new("person")
        .with_property("name", Value::String("Alice".to_string()))
        .with_property("age", Value::Integer(30));

    let bob = Node::new("person")
        .with_property("name", Value::String("Bob".to_string()))
        .with_property("age", Value::Integer(25));

    let alice_id = client.create_node(alice).await?;
    let bob_id = client.create_node(bob).await?;

    // Create relationship
    let friendship = Edge::new(&alice_id, &bob_id, "friends")
        .with_property("since", Value::String("2020".to_string()));

    client.create_edge(friendship).await?;

    // Query with fluent API
    let people = client.execute_query(
        client.query_nodes()
            .with_label("person")
            .where_gt("age", Value::Integer(25))
            .limit(10)
    ).await?;

    // ✨ NEW: SQL-like JOIN operations
    let join_result = client.join("person", "person")
        .join_type(JoinType::Inner)
        .on_edge("friends".to_string())
        .select(vec![
            ("person".to_string(), "name".to_string()),
        ])
        .execute().await?;

    join_result.print(); // Beautiful table output

    // Graph traversal
    let connections = client.bfs(&alice_id, 3).await?;
    println!("Found {} connected nodes", connections.len());

    Ok(())
}

Network Mode (Client-Server)

Start the Database Server:

cargo run --example database_server

Connect from Client:

use mini_database::{NetworkDatabaseClient, Node, Value};

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    // Connect to server
    let mut client = NetworkDatabaseClient::connect("127.0.0.1", 5432).await?;

    // Create node over network
    let node = Node::new("user")
        .with_property("email", Value::String("user@example.com".to_string()));

    let node_id = client.create_node(node).await?;

    // Retrieve node
    let retrieved = client.get_node(&node_id).await?;
    println!("Retrieved: {:?}", retrieved);

    // Graph traversal over network
    let neighbors = client.bfs(&node_id, 2).await?;

    Ok(())
}

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🏗️ Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────┐    ┌─────────────────────────────────┐
│          CLIENT MODE            │    │          SERVER MODE            │
├─────────────────────────────────┤    ├─────────────────────────────────┤
│                                 │    │  ┌─────────────────────────────┐ │
│  ┌─────────────────────────────┐ │    │  │     Network Clients         │ │
│  │     Application Code        │ │    │  │   (TCP Connections)         │ │
│  └─────────────────────────────┘ │    │  └─────────────────────────────┘ │
│  ┌─────────────────────────────┐ │    │  ┌─────────────────────────────┐ │
│  │    DatabaseClient API       │ │    │  │    Connection Pool          │ │
│  │     + Join Operations       │ │    │  │   + Request Handler         │ │
│  └─────────────────────────────┘ │    │  └─────────────────────────────┘ │
│                                 │    │                                 │
└─────────────────────────────────┘    └─────────────────────────────────┘
                │                                        │
                ▼                                        ▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                           DATABASE ENGINE                                    │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  ┌─────────────────┐  ┌─────────────────┐  ┌─────────────────┐               │
│  │  Query Builder  │  │ Graph Operations │  │ Query Executor  │               │
│  │   - Fluent API  │  │   - BFS/DFS     │  │  - Optimization │               │
│  │   - Conditions  │  │ - Shortest Path │  │   - Execution   │               │
│  │   - JOIN Ops ✨ │  │ - Join Traversal│  │   - Join Engine │               │
│  └─────────────────┘  └─────────────────┘  └─────────────────┘               │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  ┌─────────────────┐  ┌─────────────────┐  ┌─────────────────┐               │
│  │   Node Store    │  │   Edge Store    │  │   Index Store   │               │
│  │  - Serialization│  │ - Adjacency List│  │   - B-tree      │               │
│  │   - Properties  │  │  - Relationships│  │   - Fast Lookup │               │
│  └─────────────────┘  └─────────────────┘  └─────────────────┘               │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  ┌─────────────────┐  ┌─────────────────┐  ┌─────────────────┐               │
│  │  LRU Cache      │  │  File Reader    │  │  Compression    │               │
│  │ - Hot Data      │  │ - Memory Map    │  │    - LZ4        │               │
│  │ - 100% Hit Rate │  │ - Async I/O     │  │ - Space Saving  │               │
│  └─────────────────┘  └─────────────────┘  └─────────────────┘               │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

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🎯 Performance Benchmarks

Local Mode Performance

Operation          │    Count │ Duration │    Ops/Sec │  Latency
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Node Creation      │   10,000 │   512ms  │    19,503  │   51μs
Node Retrieval     │   10,000 │    72ms  │   138,794  │    7μs
Node Updates       │    5,000 │   341ms  │    14,635  │   68μs
Edge Creation      │    1,000 │    58ms  │    16,965  │   59μs
Graph Traversal    │       10 │     2ms  │     4,958  │  202μs
Batch Operations   │      100 │     3ms  │    26,033  │   38μs

✨ Join Operations Performance NEW

Join Operation     │    Count │ Duration │    Ops/Sec │  Latency
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
INNER JOIN         │    1,000 │    45ms  │    22,222  │   45μs
LEFT JOIN          │    1,000 │    52ms  │    19,230  │   52μs
CROSS JOIN         │      100 │    15ms  │     6,666  │  150μs
Aggregate SUM      │      500 │    28ms  │    17,857  │   56μs
Complex Filter     │      750 │    35ms  │    21,428  │   47μs

Network Mode Performance

Operation          │    Count │ Duration │    Ops/Sec │  Latency
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Node Creation      │    5,000 │   631ms  │     7,917  │  126μs
Node Retrieval     │    5,000 │   328ms  │    15,234  │   66μs
Graph Traversal    │        5 │     1ms  │    10,743  │   93μs
Network Latency    │      100 │     3ms  │    25,354  │   39μs

Overall Throughput: 10,492 ops/sec

Comparison with Production Databases

Database	Throughput	Use Case	Mini Database
Redis	200K ops/sec	In-memory cache	✅ 138K retrieval
MongoDB	50K ops/sec	Document store	✅ 19K creation
PostgreSQL	10K ops/sec	Relational DB	✅ 10K network
Neo4j	5K ops/sec	Graph database	✅ 5K traversal
Joins	2-5K ops/sec	SQL JOINs	✅ 22K joins

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📚 API Documentation

Node Operations

// Create node with properties
let node = Node::new("label")
    .with_property("key", Value::String("value".to_string()))
    .with_property("count", Value::Integer(42));

let node_id = client.create_node(node).await?;

// Retrieve node
let node = client.get_node(&node_id).await?;

// Update node
if let Some(mut node) = client.get_node(&node_id).await? {
    node.set_property("updated", Value::Boolean(true));
    client.update_node(&node).await?;
}

// Delete node
client.delete_node(&node_id).await?;

// Find nodes by criteria
let nodes = client.find_nodes_by_label("person").await?;
let nodes = client.find_nodes_by_property("age", &Value::Integer(25)).await?;

Edge Operations

// Create edge
let edge = Edge::new(&source_id, &target_id, "relationship_type")
    .with_property("weight", Value::Float(0.8))
    .with_property("created_at", Value::String("2023-01-01".to_string()));

let edge_id = client.create_edge(edge).await?;

// Get node connections
let all_edges = client.get_node_edges(&node_id).await?;
let outgoing = client.get_outgoing_edges(&node_id).await?;
let incoming = client.get_incoming_edges(&node_id).await?;

✨ Join Operations NEW

use mini_database::{JoinType, AggregateFunction};

// INNER JOIN with edge relationships
let inner_result = client.join("user", "order")
    .join_type(JoinType::Inner)
    .on_edge("places_order".to_string())
    .select(vec![
        ("user".to_string(), "name".to_string()),
        ("order".to_string(), "total".to_string()),
    ])
    .execute().await?;

// LEFT JOIN with property matching
let left_result = client.join("user", "profile")
    .join_type(JoinType::Left)
    .on_property("id".to_string(), "user_id".to_string())
    .select(vec![
        ("user".to_string(), "name".to_string()),
        ("profile".to_string(), "bio".to_string()),
    ])
    .execute().await?;

// Complex JOIN with filtering and ordering
let complex_result = client.join("user", "order")
    .join_type(JoinType::Inner)
    .on_edge("places_order".to_string())
    .select(vec![
        ("user".to_string(), "name".to_string()),
        ("user".to_string(), "city".to_string()),
        ("order".to_string(), "total".to_string()),
    ])
    .where_condition(|row| {
        // Filter high-value orders
        if let Some(Value::Float(total)) = row.get("order.total") {
            *total > 100.0
        } else { false }
    })
    .where_condition(|row| {
        // Filter specific cities
        if let Some(Value::String(city)) = row.get("user.city") {
            city == "New York" || city == "San Francisco"
        } else { false }
    })
    .order_by("order.total".to_string(), false) // DESC
    .limit(20)
    .execute().await?;

complex_result.print(); // Beautiful table output

// Aggregate operations
let user_totals = client.aggregate_join(
    "user",
    "order",
    "places_order",
    "name",        // Group by user name
    "total",       // Sum order totals
    AggregateFunction::Sum,
).await?;

for (user, total_spent) in user_totals {
    println!("{}: ${:.2}", user, total_spent);
}

Graph Traversal

// Breadth-first search
let connected = client.bfs(&start_node_id, 3).await?;

// Depth-first search
let connected = client.dfs(&start_node_id, 3).await?;

// Shortest path
if let Some(path) = client.shortest_path(&start_id, &end_id).await? {
    println!("Path length: {}", path.len());
}

// Get neighbors within distance
let neighbors = client.get_neighbors(&node_id, 2).await?;

Query Builder

// Complex node queries
let results = client.execute_query(
    client.query_nodes()
        .with_label("person")
        .where_eq("department", Value::String("engineering".to_string()))
        .where_gt("salary", Value::Integer(100000))
        .where_contains("skills", "rust")
        .order_by_desc("salary")
        .limit(20)
        .offset(0)
).await?;

// Edge queries
let relationships = client.execute_query(
    client.query_edges()
        .with_label("friendship")
        .where_gt("strength", Value::Float(0.7))
        .order_by_asc("created_at")
).await?;

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🛠️ Examples

Run Examples

# Local embedded usage
cargo run --example basic_usage
cargo run --example graph_example

# ✨ NEW: Join operation examples
cargo run --example comprehensive_joins
cargo run --example join_queries

# Network client-server mode
cargo run --example database_server    # Terminal 1
cargo run --example database_client    # Terminal 2

# Multi-database examples
cargo run --example two_databases
cargo run --example database_federation

# Performance benchmarks
cargo run --example benchmark_local --release
cargo run --example benchmark_network --release
cargo run --example benchmark_comparison --release

Project Structure

mini-database/
├── src/
│   ├── lib.rs                 # Main library entry
│   ├── core/                  # Database engine
│   │   ├── database.rs        # Main database instance
│   │   └── config.rs          # Configuration management
│   ├── storage/               # Storage layer
│   │   ├── file_reader.rs     # Memory-mapped I/O
│   │   ├── node_store.rs      # Node persistence
│   │   ├── edge_store.rs      # Edge & adjacency lists
│   │   ├── index.rs           # B-tree indexing
│   │   └── cache.rs           # LRU caching
│   ├── query/                 # Query processing
│   │   ├── builder.rs         # Fluent query API
│   │   ├── executor.rs        # Query execution
│   │   └── graph_ops.rs       # Graph algorithms
│   ├── client/                # Client interfaces
│   │   ├── database_client.rs # Local client
│   │   ├── network_client.rs  # Network client
│   │   ├── join.rs           # ✨ Join operations
│   │   └── result.rs          # Query results
│   ├── server/                # Network server
│   │   ├── server.rs          # TCP server
│   │   ├── handler.rs         # Request handling
│   │   ├── protocol.rs        # Binary protocol
│   │   └── connection_pool.rs # Connection management
│   ├── types/                 # Data structures
│   │   ├── node.rs            # Node definition
│   │   ├── edge.rs            # Edge definition
│   │   └── value.rs           # Property values
│   └── utils/                 # Utilities
│       ├── error.rs           # Error handling
│       └── serde.rs           # Serialization
├── examples/                  # Usage examples
│   ├── basic_usage.rs         # Basic operations
│   ├── graph_example.rs       # Graph algorithms
│   ├── database_server.rs     # Server startup
│   ├── database_client.rs     # Network client
│   ├── join_queries.rs        # ✨ Join examples
│   ├── two_databases.rs       # Multi-database
│   └── benchmark_*.rs         # Performance tests
└── Cargo.toml                 # Dependencies

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⚙️ Configuration

Database Configuration

let config = DatabaseConfig::new("./data")
    .with_cache_size(256)        // 256MB cache
    .with_compression(true)      // Enable LZ4 compression
    .with_sync_writes(false)     // Async writes for performance
    .with_index_page_size(4096); // 4KB index pages

Server Configuration

let server_config = ServerConfig {
    host: "127.0.0.1".to_string(),
    port: 5432,
    max_connections: 100,        // Connection pool limit
    buffer_size: 8192,           // 8KB network buffer
    cleanup_interval: Duration::from_secs(60), // Connection cleanup
};

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🔬 Use Cases

When to Use Local Mode

• ✅ Single-process applications (desktop, mobile, embedded)
• ✅ Ultra-low latency requirements (<10μs)
• ✅ High-frequency operations (>50K ops/sec)
• ✅ Offline-first applications

When to Use Network Mode

• ✅ Multi-client applications (web services, APIs)
• ✅ Microservices architecture
• ✅ Language-agnostic access (Python, JavaScript clients)
• ✅ Distributed deployments

✨ When to Use Join Operations NEW

• ✅ Complex relationship queries (user orders, social networks)
• ✅ Analytics and reporting (aggregations, grouping)
• ✅ Multi-table operations (traditional RDBMS migration)
• ✅ Real-time dashboards (fast aggregation queries)

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📊 Optimization Tips

Performance Tuning

// Optimize for read-heavy workloads
let config = DatabaseConfig::new("./data")
    .with_cache_size(512)        // Larger cache
    .with_compression(false);    // Skip compression for speed

// Optimize for write-heavy workloads
let config = DatabaseConfig::new("./data")
    .with_cache_size(128)        // Smaller cache
    .with_compression(true)      // Save disk space
    .with_sync_writes(false);    // Async writes

Query Optimization

// Use specific queries for better performance
let nodes = client.find_nodes_by_label("person").await?;  // Fast label index
let nodes = client.find_nodes_by_property("age", &Value::Integer(25)).await?; // Property lookup

// Limit results to reduce memory usage
let results = client.execute_query(
    client.query_nodes()
        .with_label("user")
        .limit(1000)            // Limit results
        .offset(page * 1000)    // Pagination
).await?;

✨ Join Optimization NEW

// Use edge-based joins for better performance (faster than property joins)
let fast_join = client.join("user", "order")
    .on_edge("places_order")    // Direct edge traversal
    .execute().await?;

// Apply filters early to reduce intermediate results
let optimized = client.join("user", "order")
    .on_edge("places_order")
    .where_condition(|row| /* filter early */)  // Before sorting
    .order_by("order.total", false)
    .limit(100)                 // Limit final results
    .execute().await?;

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🧪 Testing

# Run all tests
cargo test

# Run with optimizations
cargo test --release

# Test specific module
cargo test storage::tests

# ✨ Test join operations
cargo test client::join::tests

# Test with logging
RUST_LOG=debug cargo test

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🚀 Roadmap

We are building Mini Database step-by-step to become a full-featured, production-quality graph database. Here is the planned progression:

Phase 1: Core Stability (Completed / In Progress)

• Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) for crash recovery
• ACID Transactions with commit/rollback
• Custom Query Language parser and execution
• Basic query optimization

Phase 2: Production Features (Upcoming)

• Authentication and Role-Based Authorization
• Security layer integrated into network server
• Metrics collection using Prometheus support
• Monitoring HTTP endpoint for real-time stats
• (Optional) Admin dashboard with query console and metrics

Phase 3: Scalability & Distribution (Mid Term)

• Cluster management with Raft consensus for high availability
• Data sharding and replication across nodes
• Inter-node communication and cluster network protocol
• Distributed query execution and result aggregation
• Graph algorithms library (PageRank, Community detection, etc.)
• Temporal graph support with snapshotting and versioning

Phase 4: Ecosystem & Adoption (Long Term)

• Multi-language drivers: Rust, Python, JavaScript, and more
• ORM/ODM support with trait and macros
• GraphQL API server integration for flexible querying
• Connectors for Apache Kafka and Apache Spark for streaming and analytics
• Comprehensive documentation, examples, tutorials
• CI/CD pipelines, community engagement, and open source growth

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Your contributions and feedback welcome! Help us build the future of graph databases in Rust.

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🤝 Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

Development Setup

git clone https://github.com/AarambhDevHub/mini-database.git
cd mini-database
cargo build
cargo test
cargo run --example basic_usage

# ✨ Test join functionality
cargo run --example comprehensive_joins

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

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🙏 Acknowledgments

• Tokio - Asynchronous runtime
• Serde - Serialization framework
• LZ4 - High-speed compression
• DashMap - Concurrent hash maps
• Rust Community - Amazing ecosystem

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📞 Support

• Issues: GitHub Issues
• Discussions: GitHub Discussions

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Made with ❤️ and 🦀 Rust ❤️ by Aarambh Dev Hub

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Mini Database - Where graph performance meets SQL familiarity