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Infinite

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The database that can store the Internet.

Wouldn't it be awesome if you could save the entire Internet into a database? Well, you can now do so! Infinite exploits a simple loophole in your operating system to enable you to store an infinite amount of data, without using a single byte.

How it works

A file contains data, which is measured in bytes. If a file contains Hello!, it takes up 7 bytes (remember to count the newline character). If a file contains Bye bye~, it takes up 9 bytes. Simple.

Now what if a file contains nothing? How many bytes would the file take up? That's right, 0! But a file can still store data, even if it contains nothing. Where? In its name of course! If we store data in its name, we can now have a file that stores data, but contains nothing, and thus takes up 0 bytes!

Here, have some evidence.

Evidence

Installation

Infinite is available as a binary and also as a Go package.

Binary

If Go is installed, the following command can be run to install the binary.

$ vgo get github.com/ravernkoh/infinite/...

Otherwise, the binary for each platform can be downloaded from the releases page.

Package

Use vgo to download the package.

$ vgo get github.com/ravernkoh/infinite

Usage

The binary can be used to explore existing Infinite nodes or create new ones.

# Create root node called db
$ mkdir db

# Set the value to "value"
$ infinite value db --set value

# Create a child node called "child"
$ infinite children db --new child

# Print the value of the node
$ infinite value db
value

# Print the list of child nodes
$ infinite children db
child

Examples for the package can be found in the documentation.

Complex documentation

Okay, jokes aside, this project exists simply because I haven't wrote Go in a while. The idea of an infinite database was just a joke I made while half asleep in class.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU Public License 3.0.

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