# BaraDB

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**A multimodal database engine written in Nim — 100% native, zero dependencies.**

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## Documentation

📖 **[Read the documentation in your language](docs/index.md)** — English, Български

BaraDB combines document, graph, vector, columnar, and full-text search storage
in a single engine with a unified query language (BaraQL). It compiles to a
single 3.3MB binary with no runtime dependencies.

⭐ Thank you to everyone who continues to star and support BaraDB on [GitHub](https://github.com/katehonz/barabaDB)!

> **Current Status:** BaraDB is a production-ready multimodal database engine.
> All core storage engines, query processing, and protocol layers are fully
> implemented and tested. See [Limitations](#current-limitations) below for
> details on remaining edge-case improvements.

## Why BaraDB?

| Feature | GEL/EdgeDB | BaraDB |
|---|---|---|
| Core language | Python + Cython + Rust | **100% Nim** |
| Storage backend | PostgreSQL only | **Native multi-engine** |
| Vector search | pgvector extension | **Built-in HNSW/IVF-PQ** |
| Hybrid RAG search | None | **Vector + FTS + RRF reranking** |
| Graph algorithms | None | **BFS, DFS, Dijkstra, PageRank, Louvain + Cypher** |
| Graph SQL integration | None | **CREATE GRAPH, GRAPH_TABLE(), SQL-native** |
| Full-text search | PG FTS extension | **Built-in BM25 + TF-IDF** |
| AI Agents / NL→SQL | None | **Built-in `nl_to_sql()`, `schema_prompt()`** |
| MCP Server | None | **STDIO JSON-RPC for AI tools** |
| LangChain integration | External adapters | **Native Vector Store (Python + JS)** |
| Embedded mode | No | **Yes (SQLite-like)** |
| Binary size | ~50MB+ | **3.3MB** |
| Dependencies | PostgreSQL, Python, many libs | **Zero** |

## Architecture

```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    CLIENT LAYER                          │
│  Binary Protocol │ HTTP/REST │ WebSocket │ Embedded      │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                 QUERY LAYER (BaraQL)                     │
│  Lexer → Parser → AST → IR → Optimizer → Codegen        │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                EXECUTION ENGINE                          │
│  Document │ Graph │ Vector │ Columnar │ FTS              │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                    STORAGE                               │
│  LSM-Tree │ B-Tree │ WAL │ Bloom Filter │ mmap           │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                DISTRIBUTED                               │
│  Raft Consensus │ Sharding │ Replication                 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

## Formal Verification

BaraDB core distributed algorithms are formally specified and model-checked
with **TLA+** and the TLC model checker. All specs run with **weak fairness**
(`WF_vars(Next)`) to ensure realistic execution:

| Algorithm | Spec | States | Properties Verified |
|-----------|------|--------|---------------------|
| **Raft Consensus** | `formal-verification/raft.tla` | 38,051,647 | ElectionSafety, LeaderAppendOnly, StateMachineSafety, CommittedIndexValid, LogMatching, LeaderHasSelfHeartbeat |
| **Two-Phase Commit** | `formal-verification/twopc.tla` | 22,855,681 | Atomicity, NoOrphanBlocks, CoordinatorConsistency, NoDecideWithoutConsensus, ParticipantStateValid, RecoveryConsistency |
| **MVCC** | `formal-verification/mvcc.tla` | 177,721 | NoDirtyReads, ReadOwnWrites, WriteWriteConflict, CommittedMustStart, CommittedVersionsUnique, NoWriteSkew, **CommitProgress** (liveness) |
| **Replication** | `formal-verification/replication.tla` | 3,687,939 | AcksRemovePending, PendingAreKnown, AppliedLteCurrent, MonotonicLsn (temporal) |
| **Gossip (SWIM)** | `formal-verification/gossip.tla` | 692,497 | AliveNotFalselyDead, IncarnationMonotonic, DeadConsistency |
| **Deadlock Detection** | `formal-verification/deadlock.tla` | 3,767,361 | GraphIntegrity, NoSelfLoops |
| **Sharding** | `formal-verification/sharding.tla` | 186,305 | VirtualNodeMapping, NodeAssignmentConsistency, VnodeOrdering |

Run all checks locally:

```bash
cd formal-verification
bash run_all.sh
```

Or run individual specs:

```bash
cd formal-verification
java -cp tla2tools.jar tlc2.TLC -workers auto -config models/raft.cfg raft.tla
java -cp tla2tools.jar tlc2.TLC -workers auto -config models/twopc.cfg twopc.tla
java -cp tla2tools.jar tlc2.TLC -workers auto -config models/mvcc.cfg mvcc.tla
```

## Quick Start

```bash
# Build
nimble build -d:release

# Run tests
nimble test

# Run benchmarks
nimble bench

# Start server
./build/baradadb
```

## BaraQL — Query Language

BaraQL implements partial SQL:2023 coverage with extensions for graph, vector, and document queries.

### Basic Queries

```sql
-- SELECT with WHERE, ORDER BY, LIMIT
SELECT name, age FROM users WHERE age > 18 ORDER BY name LIMIT 10;

-- INSERT
INSERT users { name := 'Alice', age := 30 };

-- UPDATE
UPDATE users SET age = 31 WHERE name = 'Alice';

-- DELETE
DELETE FROM users WHERE name = 'Alice';
```

### Aggregates and Grouping

```sql
-- GROUP BY with HAVING
SELECT department, count(*), avg(salary)
FROM employees
GROUP BY department
HAVING count(*) > 5;

-- Aggregates: count, sum, avg, min, max
SELECT count(*), sum(amount), avg(price) FROM orders;
```

### JOINs

```sql
-- INNER JOIN
SELECT u.name, o.total
FROM users u
INNER JOIN orders o ON u.id = o.user_id;

-- LEFT JOIN
SELECT u.name, o.total
FROM users u
LEFT JOIN orders o ON u.id = o.user_id;

-- Multiple JOINs
SELECT *
FROM orders o
JOIN users u ON o.user_id = u.id
JOIN products p ON o.product_id = p.id;
```

### CTEs (Common Table Expressions)

```sql
-- Single CTE
WITH active_users AS (
  SELECT * FROM users WHERE active = true
)
SELECT * FROM active_users;

-- Multiple CTEs
WITH
  recent AS (SELECT * FROM orders WHERE date > '2025-01-01'),
  totals AS (SELECT user_id, sum(amount) as total FROM recent GROUP BY user_id)
SELECT u.name, t.total FROM users u JOIN totals t ON u.id = t.user_id;
```

### Subqueries

```sql
-- Subquery in FROM
SELECT * FROM (SELECT id, name FROM users WHERE active = true) AS active;

-- EXISTS subquery
SELECT name FROM users WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM orders WHERE orders.user_id = users.id);
```

### CASE Expressions

```sql
SELECT name,
  CASE
    WHEN age < 18 THEN 'minor'
    WHEN age < 65 THEN 'adult'
    ELSE 'senior'
  END AS category
FROM users;
```

### Schema Definition

```sql
-- Create type with properties and links
CREATE TYPE Person {
  name: str,
  age: int32
};

CREATE TYPE Movie {
  title: str,
  director: Person
};
```

### JSON & JSONB

```sql
-- Create table with JSON column
CREATE TABLE events (id INT PRIMARY KEY, payload JSON);

-- Insert valid JSON
INSERT INTO events (id, payload) VALUES (1, '{"action": "click"}');

-- JSON path operators
SELECT payload->'action' AS action_json,
       payload->>'action' AS action_text
FROM events;
```

### Full-Text Search (SQL)

```sql
-- Create FTS index
CREATE INDEX idx_fts ON articles(body) USING FTS;

-- Search with BM25 ranking
SELECT * FROM articles WHERE body @@ 'machine learning';
```

### Set Operations

```sql
SELECT name FROM customers
UNION ALL
SELECT name FROM suppliers;
```

### Point-in-Time Recovery

```sql
RECOVER TO TIMESTAMP '2026-05-07T12:00:00';
```

## Storage Engines

### LSM-Tree (Key-Value)

The primary storage engine with write-optimized append-only log structure.

```nim
import barabadb/storage/lsm

var db = newLSMTree("./data")
db.put("key1", cast[seq[byte]]("value1"))
let (found, value) = db.get("key1")
db.close()
```

Components:
- **MemTable** — in-memory sorted buffer
- **WAL** — write-ahead log for durability
- **SSTable** — sorted string tables on disk
- **Bloom Filter** — probabilistic set membership
- **Compaction** — size-tiered strategy with level management
- **Page Cache** — LRU cache with hit rate tracking

### B-Tree Index

Ordered index for range scans and point lookups.

```nim
import barabadb/storage/btree

var btree = newBTreeIndex[string, string]()
btree.insert("key1", "value1")
let values = btree.get("key1")
let range = btree.scan("key_a", "key_z")
```

### Vector Engine

Native HNSW and IVF-PQ indexes for similarity search with full SQL integration.

```sql
-- SQL vector search
CREATE TABLE items (id INT PRIMARY KEY, embedding VECTOR(768));
INSERT INTO items (id, embedding) VALUES (1, '[0.1, 0.2, 0.3, ...]');

-- Nearest neighbor search
SELECT id FROM items
ORDER BY cosine_distance(embedding, '[0.1, 0.2, 0.3, ...]') ASC
LIMIT 10;

-- With HNSW index
CREATE INDEX idx_vec ON items(embedding) USING hnsw;
```

Native Nim API:
```nim
import barabadb/vector/engine

var idx = newHNSWIndex(dimensions = 128)
idx.insert(1, @[1.0'f32, 0.0'f32, ...], {"category": "A"}.toTable)
let results = idx.search(queryVector, k = 10)

# With metadata filtering
let filtered = idx.searchWithFilter(queryVector, k = 10,
  filter = proc(meta: Table[string, string]): bool =
    return meta.getOrDefault("category") == "A")
```

Features:
- **SQL vector types** — `VECTOR(n)` with dimension validation
- **SQL distance functions** — `cosine_distance()`, `euclidean_distance()`, `inner_product()`, `l1_distance()`, `l2_distance()`
- **`<->` operator** — Euclidean distance nearest-neighbor shorthand
- **HNSW index** — `CREATE INDEX ... USING hnsw` with automatic maintenance
- **IVF-PQ** — inverted file index with product quantization
- **Distance metrics** — cosine, euclidean, dot product, Manhattan
- **Quantization** — scalar 8-bit/4-bit, product, binary
- **Metadata filtering** — filter results by key-value pairs

### Hybrid RAG Search

Combine vector similarity with full-text search and reciprocal rank fusion (RRF):

```sql
-- Hybrid search: vector + FTS reranked with RRF
SELECT hybrid_search('articles', 'embedding', 'body',
                     'machine learning', '[0.1, 0.2, ...]', 10) AS results;

-- With metadata pre-filtering (tenant isolation)
SELECT hybrid_search_filtered('articles', 'embedding', 'body',
                              'AI trends', '[0.1, 0.2, ...]', 10,
                              'tenant_id', 'company-a') AS results;

-- Re-rank existing results
SELECT rerank('machine learning', '[{"id":"1","score":"0.9"}, ...]') AS boosted;
```

Features:
- **Reciprocal Rank Fusion** — merges HNSW vector and BM25 FTS rankings
- **Metadata pre-filtering** — HNSW search with relational column filters
- **SQL functions** — `hybrid_search()`, `hybrid_search_ids()`, `hybrid_search_filtered()`, `rerank()`

### Graph Engine

Adjacency list storage with built-in algorithms.

```nim
import barabadb/graph/engine

var g = newGraph()
let alice = g.addNode("Person", {"name": "Alice"}.toTable)
let bob = g.addNode("Person", {"name": "Bob"}.toTable)
discard g.addEdge(alice, bob, "knows")

# Traversal
let bfs = g.bfs(alice)
let dfs = g.dfs(alice)
let path = g.shortestPath(alice, bob)
let ranks = g.pageRank()
```

Algorithms:
- **BFS/DFS** — breadth-first and depth-first traversal
- **Dijkstra** — shortest weighted path
- **PageRank** — node importance ranking
- **Louvain** — community detection
- **Pattern matching** — subgraph isomorphism search
- **Similarity** — Jaccard / Adamic-Adar node similarity
- **node2vec** — random-walk graph embeddings

### Graph SQL Integration

Graph data is queryable directly through BaraQL with `CREATE GRAPH`, `GRAPH_TABLE()`, and Cypher translation:

```sql
-- Create a native graph
CREATE GRAPH social_network;

-- Query via GRAPH_TABLE with algorithms
SELECT * FROM GRAPH_TABLE(
  social_network,
  MATCH (u:User)-[:KNOWS]->(f:User)
  ALGORITHM BFS
  START u.id = 1
  MAXDEPTH 3
);

-- Translate Cypher to BaraQL SQL
SELECT cypher('MATCH (u:User)-[:KNOWS]->(f) RETURN f.name') AS result;
```

Features:
- **Native graph DDL** — `CREATE GRAPH` / `DROP GRAPH`
- **SQL GRAPH_TABLE** — `MATCH`, `ALGORITHM`, `START`, `END`, `MAXDEPTH`
- **Auto-sync** — INSERT into `_nodes` / `_edges` syncs adjacency lists
- **Cypher layer** — `cypher()` SQL function translates `MATCH...RETURN` to BaraQL

## AI-Native Data Platform

BaraDB is the first database engine with built-in AI primitives — not bolted-on, but native to the query engine. RAG pipelines, LLM integration, and AI agent tools run inside the database with full multi-tenant RLS isolation.

### Natural Language → SQL

Ask questions in plain English (or any language) and get executable BaraQL:

```sql
-- Generate SQL from natural language
SELECT nl_to_sql('Show me the top 5 customers by total orders') AS query;

-- Schema-aware prompt for LLM context
SELECT schema_prompt('orders') AS context;
```

Features:
- **Schema-aware** — includes table definitions, indexes, RLS policies in the prompt
- **Validation layer** — wraps generated SQL in `LIMIT 0` to verify syntax before returning
- **Self-correction** — on error, feeds the error back to the LLM for an automatic fix
- **Tenant-aware** — respects `app.tenant_id` session variables
- **OpenAI + Ollama** — configurable via `BARADB_LLM_ENDPOINT`, `BARADB_LLM_MODEL`, `BARADB_LLM_API_KEY`

### Text Chunking & Auto-Embedding

Built-in text chunking and embedding generation for RAG pipelines:

```sql
-- Chunk text into overlapping pieces
SELECT chunk(long_article, 1024, 128) AS chunks;

-- Generate embeddings via external API (OpenAI / Ollama)
SELECT embed_text('Hello world') AS vector;
```

Features:
- **chunk() SQL function** — recursive splitting by paragraph, sentence, or fixed size
- **embed_text() SQL function** — HTTP embedding client with configurable endpoint
- **Auto-embedding on INSERT** — when a `VECTOR` column is NULL but `TEXT` is present, embeddings generate automatically
- **Configurable** via `BARADB_EMBED_ENDPOINT`, `BARADB_EMBED_MODEL`, `BARADB_EMBED_API_KEY`

### MCP Server (Model Context Protocol)

BaraDB exposes an MCP server over STDIO for AI agent integration:

```bash
./build/baramcp
```

Tools available to AI agents:
- **query** — execute parameterized BaraQL with RLS isolation
- **vector_search** — semantic HNSW search with metadata filtering
- **schema_inspect** — explore tables, columns, indexes, and RLS policies

```json
{
  "name": "vector_search",
  "arguments": {
    "table": "docs",
    "column": "embedding",
    "query_vector": [0.1, 0.2, ...],
    "k": 10,
    "tenant_id": "company-a"
  }
}
```

### LangChain Integration

Native Vector Store implementations for Python and JavaScript:

**Python:**
```python
from baradb.langchain_store import BaraDBStore

store = BaraDBStore(
    client=client,
    table="docs",
    embedding_function=OpenAIEmbeddings().embed_query,
    tenant_id="company-a"
)
await store.add_texts(["hello world", "quick brown fox"])
results = await store.similarity_search("hello", k=5)
```

**JavaScript:**
```javascript
const { BaraDBStore } = require('./baradb_langchain');

const store = new BaraDBStore({
  client,
  table: 'docs',
  embeddingFunction: async (text) => [...],
  tenantId: 'company-a'
});
await store.addDocuments([{ pageContent: 'hello world' }]);
const results = await store.similaritySearch('hello', 5);
```

Features:
- **Hybrid search** — uses `hybrid_search()` / `hybrid_search_filtered()` under the hood
- **MMR reranking** — `max_marginal_relevance_search()` for diverse results
- **Multi-tenant** — respects `tenant_id` with RLS isolation
- **Metadata filters** — pre-filter vector search by relational columns

### Chat Message History

Store conversation threads in BaraDB with RLS isolation:

```python
from baradb.chat_history import BaraDBChatHistory

history = BaraDBChatHistory(
    client=client,
    session_id="session-123",
    tenant_id="company-a",
    user_id="user-42"
)
history.add_user_message("Hello, AI!")
history.add_ai_message("Hello, how can I help?")
messages = history.messages
```

### Full-Text Search

Inverted index with BM25 and TF-IDF ranking.

```nim
import barabadb/fts/engine

var idx = newInvertedIndex()
idx.addDocument(1, "Nim is a fast programming language")
idx.addDocument(2, "Python is popular for data science")

# BM25 search
let results = idx.search("programming language")

# TF-IDF search
let tfidf = idx.searchTfidf("programming language")

# Fuzzy search (typo tolerance)
let fuzzy = idx.fuzzySearch("programing", maxDistance = 2)

# Wildcard search
let wild = idx.regexSearch("prog*")
```

### Columnar Engine

Column-oriented storage for analytical queries.

```nim
import barabadb/core/columnar

var batch = newColumnBatch()
var ageCol = batch.addInt64Col("age")
var nameCol = batch.addStringCol("name")
ageCol.appendInt64(25)
nameCol.appendString("Alice")

# Aggregates
echo ageCol.sumInt64()
echo ageCol.avgInt64()

# Encoding
let rle = rleEncode(@[1'i64, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3])
let dict = dictEncode(@["apple", "banana", "apple"])
```

## Transactions

MVCC with snapshot isolation and deadlock detection.

```nim
import barabadb/core/mvcc

var tm = newTxnManager()
let txn = tm.beginTxn()
discard tm.write(txn, "key1", cast[seq[byte]]("value1"))
discard tm.write(txn, "key2", cast[seq[byte]]("value2"))

# Savepoint
tm.savepoint(txn)
discard tm.write(txn, "key3", cast[seq[byte]]("value3"))
discard tm.rollbackToSavepoint(txn)  # undo key3

discard tm.commit(txn)
```

## Protocol

### Binary Wire Protocol

16 message types with big-endian serialization.

```nim
import barabadb/protocol/wire

let msg = makeQueryMessage(1, "SELECT * FROM users")
let ready = makeReadyMessage(1)
let error = makeErrorMessage(1, 42, "Syntax error")
```

### HTTP/REST API

```nim
import barabadb/protocol/http

var router = newHttpRouter(port = 9470)
router.get("/api/users", proc(req: Request): Future[JsonNode] {.async.} =
  return %*[{"id": 1, "name": "Alice"}])
```

### WebSocket Streaming

```nim
import barabadb/protocol/websocket

var server = newWsServer(port = 9471)
server.onMessage = proc(ws: WebSocket, data: seq[byte]) {.gcsafe.} =
  echo "Received: ", cast[string](data)
asyncCheck server.run()
```

### Authentication

```nim
import barabadb/protocol/auth

var am = newAuthManager("secret-key")
let token = am.createToken(JWTClaims(sub: "user1", role: "admin"))
let result = am.validateCredentials(AuthCredentials(authMethod: amToken, payload: token))
```

### Rate Limiting

```nim
import barabadb/protocol/ratelimit

var rl = newRateLimiter(rlaTokenBucket, globalRate = 1000, perClientRate = 100)
if rl.allowRequest("client-123"):
  echo "Request allowed"
```

## Schema System

```nim
import barabadb/schema/schema

var s = newSchema()

let person = newType("Person")
person.addProperty("name", "str", required = true)
person.addProperty("age", "int32")
s.addType("default", person)

# Inheritance
let employee = newType("Employee")
employee.setBases(@["Person"])
employee.addProperty("department", "str")
s.addType("default", employee)

# Resolve inheritance — Employee gets name, age, department
let resolved = s.resolveInheritance(employee)

# Diff schemas
let diff = s.diff(oldSchema, newSchema)
```

## Distributed

### Raft Consensus

```nim
import barabadb/core/raft

var cluster = newRaftCluster()
cluster.addNode("node1")
cluster.addNode("node2")
cluster.addNode("node3")

let n1 = cluster.nodes["n1"]
n1.becomeCandidate()
n1.becomeLeader()
let entry = n1.appendLog("SET key1 value1")
```

### Sharding

```nim
import barabadb/core/sharding

var router = newShardRouter(ShardConfig(numShards: 4, replicas: 2, strategy: ssHash))
router.rebalance(@["node1", "node2", "node3"])
let shard = router.getShard("user_123")
```

### Replication

```nim
import barabadb/core/replication

var rm = newReplicationManager(rmSync)
rm.addReplica(newReplica("r1", "10.0.0.1", 9472))
rm.connectReplica("r1")
let lsn = rm.writeLsn(@[1'u8, 2, 3])
rm.ackLsn("r1", lsn)  # blocks until acked
```

## User Defined Functions

```nim
import barabadb/query/udf

var reg = newUDFRegistry()
reg.registerStdlib()  # abs, sqrt, pow, lower, upper, len, trim, substr, toString, toInt

# Custom function
reg.register("greet", @[UDFParam(name: "name", typeName: "str")],
  "str", proc(args: seq[Value]): Value =
    return Value(kind: vkString, strVal: "Hello, " & args[0].strVal & "!"))
```

## Performance Benchmarks

BaraDB is optimized for high throughput across all storage engines. Below are
representative results on a modern desktop (AMD Ryzen 9, NVMe SSD):

| Engine | Operation | Throughput | Latency |
|--------|-----------|------------|---------|
| **LSM-Tree** | Write 100K keys | ~580K ops/s | 1.7 µs/op |
| **LSM-Tree** | Read 100K keys | ~720K ops/s | 1.4 µs/op |
| **B-Tree** | Insert 100K keys | ~1.2M ops/s | 0.8 µs/op |
| **B-Tree** | Point lookup 100K | ~1.5M ops/s | 0.6 µs/op |
| **Vector (HNSW)** | Insert 10K vectors (dim=128) | ~45K ops/s | 22 µs/op |
| **Vector (HNSW)** | Search top-10 | ~2ms/query | — |
| **Vector (SIMD)** | Cosine distance (dim=768, n=10K) | ~850K ops/s | 1.2 µs/op |
| **FTS** | Index 10K documents | ~320K docs/s | 3.1 µs/doc |
| **FTS** | BM25 search (1K queries) | ~28K queries/s | 35 µs/query |
| **Graph** | Add 1K nodes | ~2.5M nodes/s | 0.4 µs/node |
| **Graph** | BFS traversal (100×) | ~12K traversals/s | 83 µs/traversal |
| **Graph** | PageRank (1K nodes, 5K edges) | ~450 graphs/s | 2.2 ms/graph |

Run benchmarks yourself:

```bash
nim c -d:ssl -d:release -r benchmarks/bench_all.nim
```

## Docker Deployment

### Quick Start

```bash
docker build -t baradb:latest .
docker compose up -d
```

### Docker Files

| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `Dockerfile` | Production-ready image (pre-built binary) |
| `Dockerfile.source` | Build from source |
| `docker-compose.yml` | Development |
| `docker-compose.prod.yml` | Production with TLS, backups, resource limits |
| `docker-entrypoint.sh` | Container initialization |

### Production

```bash
docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up -d
```

See [docs/en/docker.md](docs/en/docker.md) for full Docker documentation.

### Ports

| Port | Description |
|------|-------------|
| `9472` | TCP binary protocol |
| `9912` | HTTP/REST API (TCP port + 440) |
| `9913` | WebSocket (TCP port + 441) |

### Environment Variables

| Variable | Default | Description |
|----------|---------|-------------|
| `BARADB_ADDRESS` | `0.0.0.0` | Bind address |
| `BARADB_PORT` | `9472` | TCP binary protocol port |
| `BARADB_DATA_DIR` | `/data` | Data directory |
| `BARADB_LOG_LEVEL` | `info` | Log level |
| `BARADB_TLS_ENABLED` | `false` | Enable TLS |
| `BARADB_CERT_FILE` | — | TLS certificate path |
| `BARADB_KEY_FILE` | — | TLS private key path |

## Built with BaraDB

### NodeBara

**[NodeBara](https://codeberg.org/baraDB/nodebara)** is the first large-scale application running on BaraDB — a modern forum platform forked from NodeBB and fully adapted for BaraDB's native multimodal engine.

- **Concurrent query safety** — TCP request queue in the JS client handles NodeBara's parallel startup queries without frame corruption
- **Numeric accuracy** — Big-endian float serialization guarantees correct zset scores, timestamps, and rankings across platforms
- **Non-blocking cluster gossip** — Async UDP sockets keep the event loop free under load

```bash
git clone https://codeberg.org/baraDB/nodebara
cd nodebara
npm install
npm run setup   # uses BaraDB as the default database
```

## Client SDKs

BaraDB provides official clients for multiple languages:

### JavaScript/TypeScript

```bash
npm install baradb
```

```javascript
import { Client } from 'baradb';
const client = new Client('localhost', 9472);
await client.connect();
const result = await client.query("SELECT name FROM users WHERE age > 18");
console.log(result.rows);
await client.close();
```

### Python

```bash
pip install baradb
```

```python
from baradb import Client
client = Client("localhost", 9472)
client.connect()
result = client.query("SELECT name FROM users WHERE age > 18")
print(result.rows)
client.close()
```

### Nim (Embedded)

```nim
import barabadb

var db = newLSMTree("./data")
db.put("key", cast[seq[byte]]("value"))
let (found, val) = db.get("key")
db.close()
```

### Rust

```toml
[dependencies]
baradb = "0.1"
```

```rust
use baradb::Client;
let mut client = Client::connect("localhost:9472").await?;
let result = client.query("SELECT name FROM users").await?;
```

## Security

### TLS/SSL

BaraDB supports TLS out of the box. If no certificate is provided, it auto-generates
a self-signed one on startup:

```bash
# With custom certificates
BARADB_TLS_ENABLED=true \
  BARADB_CERT_FILE=/etc/baradb/server.crt \
  BARADB_KEY_FILE=/etc/baradb/server.key \
  ./build/baradadb
```

### Authentication

JWT-based authentication with role-based access control:

```nim
import barabadb/protocol/auth

var am = newAuthManager("secret-key")
let token = am.createToken(JWTClaims(sub: "user1", role: "admin"))
let result = am.validateCredentials(...)
```

### Rate Limiting

Token-bucket rate limiting per client and globally:

```nim
var rl = newRateLimiter(rlaTokenBucket, globalRate = 10000, perClientRate = 1000)
```

## Configuration

BaraDB can be configured via environment variables or a config file:

```bash
# Environment variables
export BARADB_PORT=9472
export BARADB_HTTP_PORT=9470
export BARADB_DATA_DIR=/var/lib/baradb
export BARADB_LOG_LEVEL=info
export BARADB_COMPACTION_INTERVAL=60000

# Or create baradb.conf
port = 9472
http_port = 9470
data_dir = "/var/lib/baradb"
log_level = "info"
compaction_interval_ms = 60000
```

## Monitoring & Observability

### Built-in Metrics

BaraDB exposes operational metrics via the HTTP API:

```bash
curl http://localhost:9470/metrics
```

Example response:

```json
{
  "queries_total": 152340,
  "queries_per_second": 1240,
  "storage_lsm_size_bytes": 2147483648,
  "storage_sstables": 12,
  "cache_hit_rate": 0.94,
  "active_connections": 42,
  "txns_active": 7,
  "txns_committed": 89123,
  "txns_rolled_back": 12
}
```

### OpenTelemetry Tracing

Built-in lightweight tracing with OTLP/HTTP export:

```nim
import barabadb/core/tracing

defaultTracer.enable()
let span = defaultTracer.beginSpan("SELECT users")
# ... query execution ...
defaultTracer.endSpan(span)

# Export to Jaeger/OTLP collector
discard defaultTracer.exportOtlp("http://localhost:4318/v1/traces")
```

### Health Check

```bash
curl http://localhost:9470/health
```

### Logging

Structured logging with configurable levels (`debug`, `info`, `warn`, `error`):

```bash
BARADB_LOG_LEVEL=debug ./build/baradadb
```

## Backup & Recovery

BaraDB includes a built-in backup manager that creates compressed tar.gz
snapshots of your data directory. The manager supports **online backups**
(server does not need to stop), **integrity verification**, **retention policies**,
**dry-run restore previews**, **automatic rollback protection**, and a full
**restore history log**.

### Quick Reference

| Command | Purpose |
|---------|---------|
| `backup backup` | Create a new snapshot |
| `backup restore` | Restore data from a snapshot (auto-verifies first) |
| `backup list` | Show all snapshots |
| `backup verify` | Check archive integrity without extracting |
| `backup cleanup` | Delete old snapshots, keep N most recent |
| `backup history` | Show log of all restore operations |
| `backup help` | Show full help text |

### Build the Backup Tool

```bash
nim c -o:build/backup src/barabadb/core/backup.nim
```

For production use, compile with release optimizations:

```bash
nim c -d:release -o:build/backup src/barabadb/core/backup.nim
```

### Creating Backups

**Basic backup** — creates `backup_<timestamp>.tar.gz` in the current directory:

```bash
./build/backup backup
```

**Custom output path**:

```bash
./build/backup backup --output=/backups/prod_$(date +%F).tar.gz
```

**Maximum compression** (slower, smaller file):

```bash
./build/backup backup --level=9
```

**Exclude WAL logs and temporary files**:

```bash
./build/backup backup \
  --exclude="*.log" \
  --exclude="wal/*" \
  --exclude="tmp/*"
```

**Verbose output** (shows tar command and progress):

```bash
./build/backup backup --verbose
```

### Listing Backups

```bash
./build/backup list
```

Example output:

```
Found 3 backup(s):
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#   Timestamp            Size        Path
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1   2026-05-06 23:04:56  12.45 MB    backup_1715011200.tar.gz
2   2026-05-05 12:30:00  11.20 MB    backup_1714921800.tar.gz
3   2026-05-04 08:15:22  10.89 MB    backup_1714834522.tar.gz
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
```

### Verifying Backups

Always verify a snapshot before restoring, especially after transferring it
over the network. The restore command does this automatically, but you can
also check manually:

```bash
./build/backup verify --input=backup_1715011200.tar.gz
```

A valid archive prints:

```
Archive is valid: backup_1715011200.tar.gz (12.45 MB)
```

A corrupted archive prints an error and exits with code 1.

### Restoring from Backup

The restore command follows a **safe restore workflow**:

1. **Verify** archive integrity automatically
2. **Prompt** for confirmation (unless `--force` is used)
3. **Move** existing data to `data/server.old_<timestamp>`
4. **Extract** the archive
5. **Rollback** automatically if extraction fails
6. **Log** the operation to `backup_history.log`

> ⚠️ **WARNING:** Restore replaces the existing data directory. The old data
> is automatically moved to `data/server.old_<timestamp>` before extraction.
> If extraction fails, the tool attempts an automatic rollback to the old data.

**Interactive restore** (asks for confirmation):

```bash
./build/backup restore --input=backup_1715011200.tar.gz
```

You will be prompted:

```
Verifying archive before restore...
Archive is valid: backup_1715011200.tar.gz (12.45 MB)
WARNING: This will REPLACE the data in: data/server
Continue? [y/N]
```

**Force restore** — skip confirmation (for scripts and automation):

```bash
./build/backup restore --input=backup.tar.gz --force
```

**Dry-run restore** — preview what would happen without making changes:

```bash
./build/backup restore --input=backup.tar.gz --dry-run
```

Output:

```
DRY-RUN: The following actions would be performed:
  1. Verify archive integrity: backup.tar.gz
  2. Move existing data to:    data/server.old_1778099200
  3. Extract archive to:       data/server
  Archive size: 12.45 MB
  Free space:   45.20 GB
```

**Restore to a different data directory**:

```bash
./build/backup restore --input=backup.tar.gz --data-dir=data/recovered
```

**Verbose restore** (shows all steps and disk space check):

```bash
./build/backup restore --input=backup.tar.gz --verbose
```

### Restore History

Every restore operation is logged to `backup_history.log` in the current
directory. View the history:

```bash
./build/backup history
```

Example output:

```
Restore history:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-05-06 23:15:00] SUCCESS restore from /backups/backup_1715011200.tar.gz to /opt/baradb/data/server
[2026-05-06 22:30:15] FAILED  restore from /backups/backup_1715007000.tar.gz to /opt/baradb/data/server
[2026-05-05 08:00:00] DRY-RUN restore from /backups/backup_1714900000.tar.gz to /opt/baradb/data/server
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
```

### Cleanup & Retention

Delete old snapshots automatically, keeping only the N most recent:

```bash
# Keep last 5 snapshots (default)
./build/backup cleanup

# Keep last 3 snapshots
./build/backup cleanup --keep=3

# Verbose — shows which files are deleted
./build/backup cleanup --keep=3 --verbose
```

### Automated Backups with Cron

Add to your crontab for daily backups at 2 AM:

```bash
# Edit crontab
crontab -e

# Add this line for daily backups
0 2 * * * cd /opt/baradb && ./build/backup backup --output=/backups/baradb_$(date +\%F).tar.gz --level=6 >> /var/log/baradb-backup.log 2>&1

# Weekly cleanup — keep last 7 snapshots
0 3 * * 0 cd /opt/baradb && ./build/backup cleanup --keep=7 >> /var/log/baradb-backup.log 2>&1
```

### Disaster Recovery Best Practices

1. **3-2-1 Rule:** Keep 3 copies, on 2 different media, with 1 offsite.
2. **Verify regularly:** Run `backup verify` on archived snapshots monthly.
3. **Test restores:** Perform a dry-run restore (`--dry-run`) weekly and a
   full test restore to a staging environment monthly.
4. **Monitor disk space:** The restore command warns if free space is less
   than 2× the archive size.
5. **Keep old data:** After restore, the previous data is preserved as
   `data/server.old_<timestamp>`. Only delete it after confirming the new
   data works.
6. **Log audit trail:** Use `backup history` to track all restore operations.

### Nim API

You can also use the backup module programmatically:

```nim
import barabadb/core/backup

# Create a snapshot
let ok = backupDataDir("data/server", "snapshot.tar.gz")
if not ok:
  echo "Backup failed"

# List existing snapshots
let backups = listBackups("data/server")
for b in backups:
  echo b.path, " → ", formatBytes(b.size)

# Verify without extracting
let valid = verifyArchive("snapshot.tar.gz")

# Restore with rollback protection
let restored = restoreDataDir("snapshot.tar.gz", "data/server")

# Dry-run restore — preview without changes
let preview = restoreDataDir("snapshot.tar.gz", "data/server", dryRun = true)

# Cleanup retention
cleanupOldBackups("data/server", keepLast = 5)

# Read restore history
for entry in readHistory():
  echo entry
```

### Full Option Reference

| Option | Short | Default | Description |
|--------|-------|---------|-------------|
| `--data-dir` | `-d` | `data/server` | Path to the data directory |
| `--output` | `-o` | auto-generated | Destination path for new backup |
| `--input` | `-i` | — | Source archive for restore/verify |
| `--keep` | `-k` | `5` | Number of snapshots to retain |
| `--exclude` | `-e` | — | Exclude pattern (repeatable) |
| `--level` | `-l` | `6` | Gzip compression 0-9 |
| `--dry-run` | — | off | Preview restore without changes |
| `--force` | `-f` | off | Skip confirmation prompts |
| `--verbose` | `-v` | off | Detailed progress output |
| `--help` | `-h` | — | Show help text |

### Exit Codes

| Code | Meaning |
|------|---------|
| `0` | Success |
| `1` | Error (invalid args, missing files, verification or extraction failure) |

### Point-in-Time Recovery (WAL)

For fine-grained recovery, replay the WAL from a checkpoint:

```bash
./build/baradadb --recover --wal-dir=./wal --checkpoint=/backup/snapshot.tar.gz
```

### Cross-Modal Queries

One of BaraDB's unique strengths is querying across storage engines in a single
BaraQL statement:

```sql
-- Find articles about "machine learning" similar to a vector
SELECT a.title, a.score
FROM articles a
WHERE MATCH(a.body) AGAINST('machine learning')
ORDER BY cosine_distance(a.embedding, [0.1, 0.2, ...])
LIMIT 10;

-- Graph + vector: find friends with similar taste
MATCH (u:User)-[:KNOWS]->(friend:User)
WHERE u.name = 'Alice'
ORDER BY cosine_distance(friend.taste_vector, u.taste_vector)
RETURN friend.name;

-- Full-text + aggregate: top departments by article count
SELECT department, count(*) as articles
FROM docs
WHERE MATCH(content) AGAINST('Nim programming')
GROUP BY department
ORDER BY articles DESC;
```

## Troubleshooting

### Port Already in Use

```
Error: unhandled exception: Address already in use
```

**Fix:** Change the port or kill the existing process:

```bash
BARADB_PORT=5433 ./build/baradadb
# or
lsof -ti:9472 | xargs kill -9
```

### SSL Compilation Error

```
Error: BaraDB requires SSL support. Compile with -d:ssl
```

**Fix:** Always compile with `-d:ssl`:

```bash
nim c -d:ssl -d:release -o:build/baradadb src/baradadb.nim
```

### Permission Denied on Data Directory

**Fix:** Ensure the data directory exists and is writable:

```bash
mkdir -p ./data && chmod 755 ./data
```

### High Memory Usage

**Fix:** Tune the MemTable size and page cache:

```bash
export BARADB_MEMTABLE_SIZE_MB=64
export BARADB_CACHE_SIZE_MB=256
```

## Project Structure

```
src/barabadb/
├── core/
│   ├── types.nim         # Type system (17 native types)
│   ├── config.nim        # Configuration loader (env + file)
│   ├── server.nim        # Async TCP wire-protocol server
│   ├── httpserver.nim    # Multi-threaded HTTP/REST server
│   ├── websocket.nim     # WebSocket streaming server
│   ├── mvcc.nim          # Multi-version concurrency control
│   ├── deadlock.nim      # Wait-for graph deadlock detection
│   ├── raft.nim          # Raft consensus (leader election + log replication)
│   ├── sharding.nim      # Hash / range / consistent-hash sharding
│   ├── replication.nim   # Sync / async / semi-sync replication
│   ├── gossip.nim        # SWIM-like membership & failure detection
│   ├── disttxn.nim       # Two-phase commit distributed transactions
│   ├── crossmodal.nim    # Cross-engine query federation
│   ├── columnar.nim      # Columnar storage + RLE/dict encoding
│   ├── backup.nim        # Online snapshot & point-in-time recovery
│   ├── recovery.nim      # WAL replay & crash recovery
│   ├── logging.nim       # Structured logging
│   └── fileops.nim       # Async file I/O utilities
├── storage/
│   ├── lsm.nim           # LSM-Tree storage engine (MemTable + SSTable)
│   ├── btree.nim         # B-Tree ordered index
│   ├── wal.nim           # Write-ahead log for durability
│   ├── bloom.nim         # Bloom filter for SSTable skip
│   ├── compaction.nim    # Size-tiered compaction + LRU page cache
│   └── mmap.nim          # Memory-mapped file I/O
├── query/
│   ├── lexer.nim         # Tokenizer (80+ token types)
│   ├── parser.nim        # Recursive descent BaraQL parser
│   ├── ast.nim           # Abstract syntax tree (25+ node kinds)
│   ├── ir.nim            # Intermediate representation & execution plans
│   ├── codegen.nim       # IR → storage-engine code generation
│   ├── executor.nim      # Query execution engine
│   ├── adaptive.nim      # Adaptive query optimization
│   └── udf.nim           # User-defined function registry
├── vector/
│   ├── engine.nim        # HNSW + IVF-PQ index implementations
│   ├── quant.nim         # Scalar / product / binary quantization
│   └── simd.nim          # SIMD-optimized distance functions
├── graph/
│   ├── engine.nim        # Adjacency-list graph + BFS/DFS/Dijkstra/PageRank
│   ├── community.nim     # Louvain community detection
│   └── cypher.nim        # Cypher-to-SQL translator + query parser
├── ai/
│   ├── llm.nim           # LLM client for NL→SQL (OpenAI / Ollama)
│   ├── chunk.nim         # Text chunking for RAG pipelines
│   └── embed.nim         # HTTP embedding client (OpenAI / Ollama)
├── mcp/
│   └── server.nim        # MCP STDIO server (JSON-RPC 2.0 AI tools)
├── fts/
│   ├── engine.nim        # Inverted index + BM25 + TF-IDF
│   └── multilang.nim     # Tokenizers for EN, BG, DE, FR, RU
├── protocol/
│   ├── wire.nim          # Binary wire protocol (16 message types)
│   ├── http.nim          # HTTP/REST JSON router
│   ├── websocket.nim     # WebSocket frame handler
│   ├── pool.nim          # Connection pool
│   ├── auth.nim          # JWT + HMAC authentication
│   ├── ratelimit.nim     # Token-bucket rate limiter
│   ├── ssl.nim           # TLS/SSL certificate management
│   └── zerocopy.nim      # Zero-copy buffer management
├── schema/
│   └── schema.nim        # Strong types, links, inheritance, migrations
├── client/
│   ├── client.nim        # Nim binary-protocol client
│   └── fileops.nim       # Client-side file helpers
└── cli/
    └── shell.nim         # Interactive BaraQL REPL
```

## Tests

```bash
# Run all tests (448 tests, 60+ suites)
nim c --path:src -r tests/test_all.nim

# Run benchmarks
nim c -d:release -r benchmarks/bench_all.nim
```

## Roadmap Progress

| Phase | Status | Progress | Since |
|-------|--------|----------|-------|
| Core (LSM + B-Tree + compaction + cache + mmap) | ✅ | 100% | v1.0.0 |
| BaraQL (GROUP BY + JOIN + CTE + aggregates + codegen + UDF) | ✅ | 100% | v1.0.0 |
| Multimodal storage (KV + graph + vector + columnar + FTS) | ✅ | 100% | v1.0.0 |
| Transactions (MVCC + deadlock + WAL + savepoints) | ✅ | 100% | v1.0.0 |
| Protocol (binary + HTTP + WS + pool + auth + ratelimit) | ✅ | 100% | v1.0.0 |
| Schema (inheritance + computed + migrations) | ✅ | 100% | v1.0.0 |
| Vector engine (HNSW + IVF-PQ + quant + SIMD + metadata) | ✅ | 100% | v1.0.0 |
| Vector SQL Integration (VECTOR type, distance functions, <->, HNSW indexes) | ✅ | 100% | v1.1.6 |
| Graph engine (all algorithms + pattern matching) | ✅ | 100% | v1.0.0 |
| FTS (BM25 + TF-IDF + fuzzy + regex + multi-language) | ✅ | 100% | v1.0.0 |
| CLI shell | ✅ | 100% | v1.0.0 |
| Cluster (Raft + sharding + replication + gossip) | ✅ | 100% | v1.0.0 |
| Cross-modal queries | ✅ | 100% | v1.0.0 |
| Backup & Recovery | ✅ | 100% | v1.0.0 |
| Client SDKs (JS, Python, Nim, Rust) | ✅ | 100% | v1.0.0 |
| Graph SQL Integration (CREATE GRAPH, GRAPH_TABLE, Cypher) | ✅ | 100% | v1.1.6 |
| Hybrid RAG Search (vector + FTS + RRF reranking) | ✅ | 100% | v1.1.6 |
| AI Chunking & Auto-Embedding (`chunk()`, `embed_text()`) | ✅ | 100% | v1.1.6 |
| NL→SQL (`nl_to_sql()`, `schema_prompt()`) | ✅ | 100% | v1.1.6 |
| MCP Server (STDIO JSON-RPC for AI agents) | ✅ | 100% | v1.1.6 |
| LangChain Vector Store (Python + JS) | ✅ | 100% | v1.1.6 |
| Production Hardening (prop tests, fuzz tests, thread safety) | ✅ | 100% | v1.1.6 |

## Current Limitations

While BaraDB is production-ready, a few advanced optimizations and edge-case
features are still being refined:

| Component | Status | Note |
|-----------|--------|------|
| LSM-Tree SSTable reads | ✅ Implemented | Full disk I/O with compaction, WAL, and bloom filters. |
| HNSW vector search | ✅ Implemented | Hierarchical graph navigation with SIMD-optimized distance metrics. |
| TCP server execution | ✅ Implemented | Full binary wire protocol parsing and BaraQL query execution. |
| Raft consensus | ✅ Core logic | Full Raft algorithm with log replication; network transport pluggable. |
| Graph / FTS / Columnar | ✅ Implemented | In-memory engines with serialization; persistence layer optional. |
| Query codegen | ✅ Implemented | IR plans compile to storage engine operations with optimization passes. |

All core functionality is complete and production-tested. The roadmap above
reflects 100% completion across all major phases.

## Changelog

See [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) for full release history. The latest release (**v1.1.7**) includes 33 bug fixes across security, data integrity, query correctness, and resource management.

## License

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