DDBD: the database behind Skapi, now free and open source on Linux and macOS

Hello, and thank you for being here. Today we are releasing something we have been building toward since the first day of Skapi: DDBD , a schemaless record database with writer-based access control (WBAC). It is the record design that runs Skapi's database, packed into a server you can run yourself. It is free and open source under the Apache-2.0 license, and it runs on Linux and macOS. Everything about it is at ddbd.skapi.com .

This article explains the problems we set out to solve from day one, how DDBD solves them, how it performs against PostgreSQL, MongoDB and SQLite, and how to install it in a minute.

The problems we set out to solve from day one

When we started Skapi, we wanted four things from a database, all at the same time.

Records without a schema. You should be able to save a JSON record and query it right away, without designing tables, writing migrations or setting up indexes first.…