Why I'm Building a Database Engine in C#
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A database engineer explains why they chose C# over C/C++/Rust for building Typhon, an ACID database engine targeting 1-2 microsecond transaction commits. Modern C# features like unsafe code, pinned memory, ref structs, and hardware intrinsics deliver C-level performance while maintaining .NET's productivity advantages. Early benchmarks show 830K ops/sec for MVCC transactions and 267ns B+Tree lookups.
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