# Write a time-series database engine from scratch

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**Tags:** databases\
**Created:** [July 4, 2021, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/t/write-a-time-series-database-engine-from-scratch/2682 "2021-07-04T20:19:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Josh](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/user_avatar/forum.codeselfstudy.com/josh/32/4_2.png) [@Josh](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/u/Josh)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/t/write-a-time-series-database-engine-from-scratch/2682/1 "2021-07-04T20:19:53Z")

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Interesting project:

> **[Write a time-series database engine from scratch](https://nakabonne.dev/posts/write-tsdb-from-scratch/)**
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> It covers how to make a time-series database engine from scratch

> **[GitHub - nakabonne/tstorage: An embedded time-series database](https://github.com/nakabonne/tstorage)**
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> An embedded time-series database

There were a couple of others mentioned in [HN comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27730854):

- [Notes on software development | notes.eatonphil.com](https://notes.eatonphil.com/tags/database.html)
- [How Does a Database Work? | Let’s Build a Simple Database](https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/)
- _Database design for mere mortals_ (book)