8 posts filed under rust.
MongrelDB Kit exposes the engine's storage knobs as one-line calls per table: transaction spill thresholds, mutable-run spill, compaction zstd level, result cache budget, and the deferred-versus-eager index build policy.
MongrelDB Kit ships TypeScript, Rust, and Python SDKs over a single Rust core, and a shared JSON conformance suite proves all three produce identical results and identical error codes on top of one shared query compiler.
MongrelDB ships as one compiled binary per platform and one shared library per ABI, with cluster and cloud integrations excluded at compile time, and that shape is an economic decision as much as an engineering one.
A technical comparison of MongrelDB and SurrealDB across embedded deployment, data models, transactions, SQL, vector search, hybrid retrieval, and operations.
An end-to-end technical walkthrough of MongrelDB, from transaction validation, WAL durability, MVCC, and PAX columnar runs to DataFusion SQL and hybrid retrieval.
How an embedded vector database keeps HNSW candidates, operational rows, SQL filters, sparse retrieval, and exact reranking inside one Rust engine.
MongrelDB supports 35 languages through nine embedded native bindings and 26 language-native HTTP clients, with one engine contract under both boundaries.
An honest map of where MongrelDB fits among embedded databases: operational writes, columnar scans, hybrid retrieval, encryption, SQL, and single-node limits.
