The designing and implementing database engines may have become a lost art. Although most standard database text books include ample coverage of algorithms for design and implementation database engines, many computer science programs seem to provide minimal coverage of file organizations, theoretical foundations, and algorithms necessary to build a database engine. The systematic removal of “file organizations and information retrieval” as a topic of study coupled with greater emphasis on the so called “practical applications” of databases, have joined hands to eliminate the coverage of theory and implementation of the underlying database engine.
This paper discusses a step by step process by which we in this advanced database course can design and construct a simple, yet fully functional database engine.
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