On a minimalist No-SQL server :
A key-value storage server [read No-SQL server] written in only 1000 lines of Go. And it's not a toy or demo project. In production and distributed system supporting replication and what not.
How did they do it? Unix philosophy. Use the filesystem for storage, NginX as the network server, and a good 3rd party library for column indexing.
That's why linux and unix systems are so helpful. You don't need to add the kitchen sink with your every application. One application can help the other with its task. Which Windows applications can't.
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