DBCaml

I’ve spent the last four months working on DBCaml. Some of you may be familiar with this project, while others may not. When I started DBCaml, I had one primary goal: to build a toolkit for OCaml that handles pooling and mapping to types and more. This toolkit would also run on Riot, which is an actor-model multi-core scheduler for OCaml 5. An issue I’ve found in the OCaml space and databases is that most of the existing database libraries either don’t support Postgres version 14 and higher, or they run on the PostgreSQL library, which is a C-binding library....

It’s time for me to discuss what I’ve been working on recently: Dbcaml. Dbcaml is a database toolkit built for OCaml, based on Riot. Riot is an actor-model multi-core scheduler for OCaml 5. Riot works by creating lightweight processes that execute code and communicate with the rest of the system using message-passing. You can find Riot on GitHub. The core idea of DBCaml is to provide a toolkit that assists with the “boring” tasks you don’t want to deal with, allowing you to focus on your queries....