Tag: rust

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• Building a Graph Database - The File Format

  21 May, 2026

  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.