Davidjustice28

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• Scalability roadmap: make BasalDB viable for traces and agent memory

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  Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 5/100

  Davidjustice28/basildb#42 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Retention / TTL: expire old subtrees by age and reclaim space

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#40 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• High-throughput ingest: batched/group commit and append fast path

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  Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 12/100

  Davidjustice28/basildb#39 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Recursive (self-referencing) layers for arbitrary-depth trees (trace spans, comments, folders)

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#38 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Whole database is loaded into RAM (~300 B/record, 1.8 GB peak at 1M records)

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#37 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Branches duplicate every page on disk (file +65% per branch)

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#36 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Cascade delete is O(deleted x layer size): 1.5 s to delete 211 records at 1M

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  bug performance scalability

  Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100

  Davidjustice28/basildb#35 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Each write transaction copies every layer's page map and id index (O(N) per commit)

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#34 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Use the id index in BQL; add secondary indexes on attributes (incl. ordered/range)

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  Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

  Davidjustice28/basildb#33 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Every CLI call rewrites the entire .bsl file, including read-only queries

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  bug performance scalability

  Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

  Davidjustice28/basildb#32 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• BQL lexer rejects unquoted decimals and dotted values (0.9, browser.click)

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  bug

  Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

  Davidjustice28/basildb#31 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Attribute migrations: change type, constraints, and order of existing attributes

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  Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

  Davidjustice28/basildb#30 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Layer migrations: add (incl. mid-stack), rename, and remove existing layers

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#29 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• CSV / TSV output format for queries

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#28 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Add `--version` / `basal version`

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#27 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• `basal compact`: reclaim space from deleted records and branches

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#26 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• `basal verify`: integrity check (fsck)

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#25 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Export / import (JSON, CSV, per subtree)

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#24 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Interactive shell (`basal shell`)

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#23 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Transactions / run multiple statements atomically (script file or stdin)

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#22 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Time travel: read at a past commit, revert, and per-record history

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#21 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Branch diff and merge

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#20 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Branch delete (and rename)

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#19 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• SHOW SCHEMA: show declared attribute names (and types) per layer

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  Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

  Davidjustice28/basildb#18 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Schema changes after init (ALTER LAYER)

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#17 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Typed attributes and constraints (number/bool/date, required, unique)

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#16 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• BQL: MOVE / reparent a record (with its subtree)

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#15 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• BQL: descendant step that skips intermediate layers

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#14 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• BQL: walk up the tree (ancestors / parent lookup)

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#13 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• BQL: COUNT and simple aggregates

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#12 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• BQL: sort by attribute and offset/cursor pagination

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#11 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• BQL: string pattern operators (like / contains / prefix / suffix)

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#10 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• BQL: support OR / IN filters

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#9 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Output polish: empty commit line and inconsistent separators

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  Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

  Davidjustice28/basildb#8 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• `-json` output omits zero-valued built-in fields (`slot: 0`, `parent: 0`)

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#7 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Audit log: CLI hides recorded ops, no attribute values, not signed/hash-chained

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#6 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Child-layer records can be created without a parent (orphans that cascade delete never reaches)

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#5 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Concurrent CLI writes silently lose data (no cross-process file lock)

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#4 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Support multi-layer projection in GET queries (return attrs from all layers in a path)

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  Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

  Davidjustice28/basildb#3 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Add a -help flag

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#2 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Query language doesn't support bulk create in one statement

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  Davidjustice28/basildb#1 · Opened Oct 14, 2026