People often ask me why I decided to build a database. The answer goes back much further than LioranDB. It started when I was 12 years old. When I was around 12, I decided that I wanted to build my own database. Of course, I had no idea how real databases actually worked. I built my first "database" using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Socket.IO, and the browser's Local Storage . There was no WAL, no indexing, no storage engine, no recovery, no transactions—just JSON stored in ...