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+# r/nim — [Showcase] BaraDB: A database engine written from scratch in Nim
+
+Hey r/nim! I wanted to share a project I've been working on for the past several months.
+
+**BaraDB** is a multimodal database engine written entirely in Nim — no C/C++ dependencies, no PostgreSQL, no external services. Just Nim.
+
+## What is it?
+
+A single-binary (~3.3MB) database that combines:
+
+- **Document/KV storage** — LSM-Tree with WAL, bloom filters, SSTable compaction
+- **SQL-compatible query language** — BaraQL with SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE, JOINs, GROUP BY, CTEs, indexes
+- **Graph engine** — BFS, DFS, Dijkstra, PageRank, Louvain communities
+- **Vector search** — HNSW index with SIMD-optimized distance metrics
+- **Full-text search** — BM25 + TF-IDF with stemming (EN/BG/DE/RU)
+- **Columnar engine** — RLE, dictionary encoding, batch operations
+- **Wire protocol** — binary protocol + HTTP/REST + WebSocket + JWT auth
+- **4 client SDKs** — Nim, Python, JavaScript, Rust
+
+## Architecture
+
+```
+Client Layer     → Binary / HTTP / WebSocket
+Query Layer      → Lexer → Parser → AST → IR → Optimizer → Codegen
+Execution Engine → Document / Graph / Vector / Columnar / FTS
+Storage          → LSM-Tree / B-Tree / WAL / Bloom / mmap
+Distributed      → Raft / Sharding / Replication (core logic)
+```
+
+## Some numbers
+
+- **~15,000 lines** of Nim
+- **269 tests**, all passing
+- **Green CI** (GitHub Actions)
+- **Benchmarks**: B-Tree point lookup ~1.5M ops/s, LSM-Tree writes ~580K ops/s
+
+## What's actually working vs. what's WIP
+
+**Solid:**
+- SQL parser & executor (JOINs, GROUP BY, subqueries, CTEs, indexes)
+- MVCC transactions, deadlock detection
+- LSM-Tree storage with background compaction
+- B-Tree indexes with range scans
+- Wire protocol + clients
+
+**In-memory / proof-of-concept:**
+- Graph, Vector, FTS, Columnar engines (serialization exists, persistence optional)
+- Distributed layer (Raft core logic is there, network transport is stubbed)
+
+**Still rough:**
+- Recursive CTE execution
+- Some edge-case query optimizations
+
+## Why Nim?
+
+Nim's metaprogramming, zero-cost abstractions, and C-like performance made it perfect for building a storage engine without drowning in C++ complexity. The binary compiles to a single static executable — deployment is just `scp`.
+
+## Repo
+
+[github.com/katehonz/barabaDB](https://github.com/katehonz/barabaDB)
+
+Feedback welcome — especially from anyone who's built storage engines before. I know there's a lot left to do, but I'm proud of how far it's come.