[__jem]

Right, just because something is a "toy" doesn't mean it's not still impressive. If someone implemented a "toy" database that could parse and execute SQL queries, distribute data across nodes, etc., you would probably not want to use that in production, but it's still a very impressive project for a single person to pull off, even if it's riddled with bugs. Getting a very complex system to "just barely functional" is still a huge achievement and very cool!

[xxs]

Being impressing or otherwise is very subjective.

SQL (ACID) over multiple non-cache-coherent nodes is extremely difficult to pull with regards to consistency, though.

[__jem]

> SQL (ACID) over multiple non-cache-coherent nodes is extremely difficult to pull with regards to consistency, though.

Thats... why it's a toy! I'm really not sure what you're missing here.

[gazarullz]

you must be fun to work with