[emehrkay]

I'm I crazy for wanting to write a database after reading this? Noting too serious, just to flex that dev muscle

[Daishiman]

Modern databases are probably some of the most sophisticated software in existence. That being said, you can pick a minimal subset of functionality and roll with that.

[ddorian43]

Try this:

Use lmdb for db library.

Use redis for the protocol.

Use twitter.gizzard for replication+sharding.

Boom! Your own webscale nosql!

[collyw]

All NoSQL is webscale, that's why it was invented after all....