ProtonDB

⚛ ProtonDB

ProtonDB is a lightweight, portable NoSQL-like database engine designed for simplicity, scriptability, and atomic operations. Built in C and driven via a powerful C# CLI frontend, ProtonDB offers a document-oriented approach with table-like structure.

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🚀 Features

• 🗃️ Database and collection management
• 📄 Document insertion, printing, updating, and removal
• ⚡ In-memory speed with binary storage
• ✨ JSON-based documents
• 🧪 Conditional filtering and update expressions
• 💻 CLI-driven interface

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📦 Example Commands

🔧 Database Operations

db.use("users")         # Select an active database
db.create("users")      # Create a new database
db.drop()               # Drop the current database
db.drop("logs")         # Drop a specific database
db.list()               # List all databases

📂 Collection Operations

collection.create("profiles")   # Create a new collection
collection.drop("logs")         # Drop a collection
collection.list()               # List all collections in current database

📝 Document Operations

profiles.insert({ "name": "Alice", "age": 30 })      # Insert document
profiles.print()                                     # Print all documents
profiles.print(age>=18)                              # Filtered print
profiles.remove()                                    # Remove all documents
profiles.remove(name=Bob)                            # Conditional removal

# Document Updates
profiles.update(add, {"score": 100})                 # Add new field to all
profiles.update(drop, {"score": null})               # Drop field from all
profiles.update(alter, {"name": "John"}, name=Tom)   # Alter conditionally

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📘 Syntax Reference

Concept	Syntax Example
action	add, drop, alter
data	{ "key": value }
condition	key<op>value (e.g., age>30)
operators	<, <=, >, >=, =

📌 Note: For drop, use data as { "key" }

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🧠 Commands

Command	Description
protondb	Start the ProtonDB CLI
:h	Show help message
:v	Show current version
:q	Quit the CLI

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📄 License

MIT License — Use, modify, and distribute freely.

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✨ Author

Created with purpose by Kisetsu