A dev blog about low-level systems, compilers, runtimes, and the stuff that runs underneath.https://devtales.suhan.art/https://devtales.suhan.art/posts/posts/nexora/nexora-file-format/https://devtales.suhan.art/posts/posts/nexora/nexora-file-format/Every database is ultimately a file. This post walks through how Nexora lays out nodes, edges, and properties on disk — fixed-size pages, a root-pointer manifest, intrusive linked lists for adjacency, and a packed pointer encoding that fits a page address and slot index into a single u64.Thu, 21 May 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://devtales.suhan.art/posts/posts/nexora/nexora-the-why/https://devtales.suhan.art/posts/posts/nexora/nexora-the-why/Before diving into how Nexora works, this post covers the why and what graph databases are, where relational databases fall short, and why graphs are a natural fit for highly connected data.Thu, 21 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT