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Dialog is an embeddable database designed for local-first software.

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# Dialog DB

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> The world is divided into word-processing, spreadsheet, database and other applications. Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything. 
>
> Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application.
>
> All of this is phoney. It is a system of conventions that have been established and we can have better conventions.
>
> \- Ted Nelson, _[Visionary lays into the web]_

**Dialog** is an embeddable database designed for local-first software.

It has (or aims to have) the following properties:

- Schema-on-read via an expressive [Datalog]-esque query API
- Efficient synchronization across replicas
- Support for both [Web Assembly] and native runtime environments
- Emphasis on data privacy and user-centered authority

## Status: Experimental

**Dialog** is in active development and should be considered experimental in nature.

Expect fundamental details to break over time (binary encoding, index construction etc.). At this stage, we cannot offer any promise of a path to migrate old versions of the database forward as breaking changes are landed.

## Project Layout

- **[`./rust`](/rust)**: the core implementation of Dialog.
- **[`./typescript`](/typescript)**: packages for using Dialog in TypeScript and/or React.
- **[`./adr`](/adr)**: architectural design records
- **[`./notes`](/notes)**: informal notes about Dialog or adjacent topics

## Getting Started

This project encodes a comprehensive development environment via [Nix flakes]. If you have Nix installed, you can drop into a shell with all the tools you need to build and modify Dialog using the following command:

```sh
nix develop
```

From a suitable development environment, you can build using standard Rust and Node.js tooling. For example: `cargo test` will run the full Rust test suite for your native target.

## License

This project is licensed under the [Mozilla Public License 2.0].

[Mozilla Public License 2.0]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/
[Datalog]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog
[Web Assembly]: https://webassembly.org/
[Visionary lays into the web]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1581891.stm
[Nix flakes]: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/flakes

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