https://www.visorcraft.com/news/tags/filesystem/Recent content in Filesystem on VisorCraft NewsHugoen-USSat, 11 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0500https://www.visorcraft.com/news/2026/07/grexa-db-filesystem-joins/Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0500https://www.visorcraft.com/news/2026/07/grexa-db-filesystem-joins/<p>Every database project starts with the same question: where does the data live? The conventional answers are a server process, a binary format, a set of memory-mapped pages, or a cloud endpoint. grexa-db answers differently: the data lives wherever your filesystem puts it, which means it lives everywhere your filesystem already goes, and the consequences of that choice are the interesting part.</p> <p>The short version is that grexa-db is a flat-file database engine where records are individual files and join relationships are directories full of symlinks, and the reason that matters is that every tool already written to read files from disk becomes, without modification, a query interface for your data: <code>rg</code> searches records, <code>find</code> traverses relationships, editors open rows, and your file-manager navigation habits become your database navigation habits, all without anyone involved having to know a database is present, though you do need <code>rg --follow</code> or <code>find -L</code> to traverse the join symlinks since most tools skip symlinks by default.</p>