⚡ ULTSQL - Converged Multimodal Database Engine

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⚡ Feature Matrix & Customization Guide: FEATURES.md

ULTSQL is a 5-in-1 converged multimodal database engine whose core storage, execution engine, and networking are written in 100% pure Dart with zero native C/C++ dependencies. It seamlessly unites Relational SQL, MongoDB-Style NoSQL Document Collections, Redis-Style High-Throughput Key-Value Caching, PL/SQL Procedural Scripting, and AI-Native HNSW Vector RAG Search into a single storage engine with physical ACID crash safety, cryptographic tamper detection, and cross-platform portability.

📦 SDK Availability Note: package:ultsql on pub.dev includes embedded Flutter UI inspection tools alongside the database engine. For headless Dart backend servers and non-Flutter environments, use the compiled native binary (install.sh / install.ps1), run via Docker, or connect over PostgreSQL Wire protocol (port 5432).

⚡ 5-Line Quickstart

import 'package:ultsql/ultsql.dart';

void main() async {
  final db = Database('./app_data.db');
  await db.init();
  final interpreter = Interpreter(db);

  await interpreter.executeScript('''
    CREATE TABLE users (id INT PRIMARY KEY, name TEXT, embedding VECTOR);
    INSERT INTO users VALUES (1, 'Alice', '[0.12, 0.85, -0.44]');
    SELECT * FROM users;
  ''');
}

💡 Demo: Run dart run bin/ultsql_cli.dart or flutter run for an interactive SQL studio console.

🌍 Universal Installation for All Languages & Operating Systems

ULTSQL can be accessed by any developer, programming language, or operating system:

graph TD
    subgraph "Your Application (Any System)"
        Dart[💙 Flutter & Dart]
        Py[🐍 Python]
        Node[🟢 Node.js / TS]
        Go[🐹 Go]
        Rust[🦀 Rust]
        CPP[💻 C / C++]
        JVM[☕ Java / Kotlin / C#]
        CLI[🖥️ Windows / Mac / Linux CLI]
        Docker[🐳 Docker Container]
    end

    subgraph "Package Registries & Connectors"
        Pub[Pub.dev: package:ultsql]
        PyPI[PyPI: pip install ultsql]
        NPM[NPM: npm install ultsql]
        GoMod[Go Modules: bindings/go]
        Cargo[Crates.io: ultsql]
        PGWire[PGWire: Port 5432 / libpq / JDBC / Npgsql]
        Releases[GitHub Releases: Standalone Binaries]
        Hub[Docker Hub: docker run]
    end

    Dart --> Pub
    Py --> PyPI
    Node --> NPM
    Go --> GoMod
    Rust --> Cargo
    CPP --> PGWire
    JVM --> PGWire
    CLI --> Releases
    Docker --> Hub

1. 💙 Flutter & Dart Developers (Native In-Process Engine)

100% Pure Dart! Zero external daemons or C/C++ compiler toolchains. Runs directly inside your application process across iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux, and Web:

dart pub add ultsql
# or for Flutter apps:
flutter pub add ultsql

import 'package:ultsql/ultsql.dart';

void main() async {
  // 1. Open persistent disk database (or ':memory:' for RAM)
  final db = Database('./app.db');
  await db.init();
  final it = Interpreter(db);

  // 2. Execute SQL DDL & Multi-row batch
  await it.executeScript('''
    CREATE TABLE users (id INT PRIMARY KEY, name TEXT, score DOUBLE);
    INSERT INTO users VALUES (1, 'Alice', 98.5);
    INSERT INTO users VALUES (2, 'Bob', 91.2);
  ''');

  // 3. Query records
  final res = await it.executeScript("SELECT * FROM users WHERE score >= 90;");
  for (final row in res.rows) {
    print('User: ${row[1]} (Score: ${row[2]})');
  }

  // 4. Clean shutdown (flushes cache & WAL)
  await db.close();
}

2. 🐍 Python Developers (Client SDK & Opt-in Local Helper Engine)

No Dart or Flutter required! Ships pre-compiled native platform wheels via pip.

Python Application  →  UltSQL Client SDK  →  local UltSQL engine (127.0.0.1)  →  database file

Two operating modes:

• Local Mode (Opt-in auto_start=True): Automatically starts a loopback helper engine on a free port (127.0.0.1), reuses running processes for the same database file, and terminates cleanly upon exit.
• Client Mode: Connects directly to an existing local or remote server (auto_start=False).

pip install ultsql

import ultsql

# Local mode (auto-starts engine on 127.0.0.1 with random port)
db = ultsql.open("app.ultsql", auto_start=True)

# Inspect health & process
print(db.status())  # {'status': 'online', 'host': '127.0.0.1', 'port': 54321, ...}

# 1. Execute SQL DDL / Queries
db.sql("CREATE TABLE users (id INT PRIMARY KEY, name TEXT, score DOUBLE);")

# 2. High-speed batch insert
db.insert_batch("users", [
    {"id": 1, "name": "Alice", "score": 98.5},
    {"id": 2, "name": "Bob", "score": 91.2},
])

# 3. Query records
users = db.query("users")
print("User rows:", users["rows"])

# 4. Clean shutdown (also auto-cleaned via atexit)
db.close()

To connect to an already-running server instead: db = ultsql.UltSQLClient("http://127.0.0.1:8080")
To start an explicit dev server: ultsql dev --db ./app.ultsql

3. 🟢 Node.js & TypeScript Developers (Client SDK & Opt-in Local Helper Engine)

No Dart or Flutter required! Automatically downloads the matching platform package (@ultsql/win32-x64, @ultsql/linux-x64, @ultsql/darwin-arm64).

Node.js Application  →  UltSQL Client SDK  →  local UltSQL engine (127.0.0.1)  →  database file

Two operating modes:

• Local Mode (Opt-in auto_start: true): Automatically starts a loopback helper engine on a free port (127.0.0.1), reuses running processes for the same database file, and terminates cleanly upon exit.
• Client Mode: Connects directly to an existing local or remote server (auto_start: false).

npm install ultsql

const { UltSQL, UltSQLClient } = require('ultsql');

async function main() {
  // Local mode (auto-starts engine on 127.0.0.1 with dynamic port)
  const db = await UltSQL.open('app.ultsql', { auto_start: true });

  // Inspect health & process
  const status = await db.status();
  console.log('Status:', status);

  // 1. Execute SQL DDL
  await db.sql('CREATE TABLE users (id INT PRIMARY KEY, name TEXT, score DOUBLE);');

  // 2. High-throughput batch ingestion
  await db.insertBatch('users', [
    { id: 1, name: 'Alice', score: 98.5 },
    { id: 2, name: 'Bob', score: 91.2 }
  ]);

  // 3. Query records
  const result = await db.query('users');
  console.log('Users:', result.rows);

  // 4. Clean shutdown (also auto-cleaned on process exit)
  db.close();
}
main();

To connect to an already-running server instead: const client = new UltSQLClient('http://127.0.0.1:8080');
To start an explicit dev server: ultsql dev --db ./app.ultsql

4. 🐹 Go Developers (Auto-Start Bundled Engine + REST)

No Dart or Flutter required! Starts a small bundled engine process automatically on a free port:

go get github.com/ompatel3158/ULTSQL/bindings/go

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"log"

	"github.com/ompatel3158/ULTSQL/bindings/go"
)

func main() {
	// Embedded mode: starts a small bundled engine process automatically
	db, err := ultsql.Open("app.db")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Failed to open UltSQL: %v", err)
	}
	defer db.Close()

	ctx := context.Background()

	// 1. High-speed batch ingestion
	_, err = db.InsertBatch(ctx, "users", []map[string]interface{}{
		{"id": 1, "name": "Alice", "score": 98.5},
		{"id": 2, "name": "Bob", "score": 91.2},
	})
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("InsertBatch failed: %v", err)
	}

	// 2. Query records
	res, err := db.Query(ctx, "SELECT * FROM users WHERE score >= 90.0;")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Query failed: %v", err)
	}

	fmt.Printf("Returned %d rows in %.2f ms\n", len(res.Rows), res.ExecutionTimeMs)
}

To connect to a remote server instead: client := ultsql.NewClient("http://remote-server:8080")
Or connect using standard database/sql with github.com/lib/pq:

db, err := sql.Open("postgres", "postgres://admin:admin@localhost:5432/ultsql_db?sslmode=disable")

5. 🦀 Rust Developers (Auto-Start Bundled Engine + REST)

No Dart or Flutter required! Starts a small bundled engine process automatically on a free port: Add to Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
ultsql = "1.0.28"
tokio = { version = "1.0", features = ["full"] }
serde_json = "1.0"

use ultsql::UltSqlClient;
use serde_json::json;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    // Embedded mode: starts a small bundled engine process automatically
    let db = UltSqlClient::open("app.db").await?;

    // 1. High-speed batch ingestion
    db.insert_batch("users", &[
        json!({"id": 1, "name": "Alice", "score": 98.5}),
        json!({"id": 2, "name": "Bob", "score": 91.2}),
    ]).await?;

    // 2. Query records
    let res = db.query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE score >= 90.0;").await?;
    println!("Columns: {:?}", res.columns);
    println!("Rows: {:?}", res.rows);

    // Auto-terminated on drop or explicit db.close()
    Ok(())
}

To connect to a remote server instead: let client = UltSqlClient::new("http://remote-server:8080");
Or connect asynchronously via tokio-postgres or sqlx on port 5432.

6. 💻 C & C++ Developers (libpq / libpqxx & REST API)

Connect natively using standard PostgreSQL C/C++ client libraries or HTTP REST:

#include <pqxx/pqxx>
#include <iostream>

int main() {
    try {
        pqxx::connection conn("postgresql://admin:admin@localhost:5432/ultsql_db");
        pqxx::work txn(conn);
        pqxx::result res = txn.exec("SELECT id, name, score FROM users WHERE score >= 90.0;");
        for (auto row : res) {
            std::cout << row["name"].c_str() << ": " << row["score"].as<double>() << "\n";
        }
    } catch (const std::exception &e) {
        std::cerr << "Error: " << e.what() << "\n";
    }
    return 0;
}

7. ☕ Java, Kotlin & C# (.NET) Developers (JDBC & Npgsql)

Connect with standard enterprise database drivers over the PostgreSQL v3 wire protocol:

• Java / Kotlin (JDBC):

  Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(
      "jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/ultsql_db", "admin", "admin"
  );
  Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
  ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM users;");
  

• C# / .NET (Npgsql):

  await using var dataSource = NpgsqlDataSource.Create(
      "Host=localhost;Port=5432;Database=ultsql_db;Username=admin;Password=admin"
  );
  await using var cmd = dataSource.CreateCommand("SELECT * FROM users");
  await using var reader = await cmd.ExecuteReaderAsync();
  

8. 🖥️ 1-Line Standalone CLI Installers (Windows, macOS, Linux)

Zero Dependencies! Automatically downloads the native binary for your architecture and adds ultsql to system PATH:

• Windows (PowerShell):

  iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ompatel3158/ULTSQL/main/install.ps1 | iex
  

• Linux & macOS (Bash):

  curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ompatel3158/ULTSQL/main/install.sh | bash
  

Once installed, use ultsql anywhere on your machine:

ultsql app.db                                       # Interactive REPL with auto-completion
ultsql bench 1000000                                # Live 1M-row disk ingestion benchmark
ultsql app.db -c "SELECT * FROM users;" -m json     # Headless JSON export for pipelines
ultsql export users users.csv                       # Streaming table export
ultsql import data.json users                       # Zero-allocation batch import
ultsql dev --db ./app.ultsql                        # Local dev server on 127.0.0.1:8080 with live logs
ultsql serve --port=8080 --pgwire=5432 --db=./my_db # Combined REST API & PostgreSQL wire daemon

9. 🐳 Docker Container (Cloud & Servers)

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 -p 5432:5432 -v ./data:/db ompatel3158/ultsql:latest serve --port 8080 --pgwire 5432 --db /db

10. 🔌 PostgreSQL Wire Protocol (psql, GUI Clients & BI Tools)

Connect directly from standard database management tools (DBeaver, TablePlus, Grafana, psql):

# Start standalone PGWire daemon on port 5432
ultsql pgwire --port=5432 --db=./my_db

# Connect with psql
psql "host=localhost port=5432 user=admin dbname=ultsql_db"

🌟 Standalone Engine Metrics

🏛️ System Architecture

UltSQL uses a multi-layered Volcano-iterator query engine over custom slotted-page disk/memory tables, LRU page caching, B+ Trees, and HNSW vector graphs:

graph TD
    UI[Flutter IDE Console / Client App] -->|SQL / PL-SQL / NL Prompt| Interpreter[Interpreter Engine]
    Interpreter -->|Natural Language AI| NlEngine[NL-to-SQL AI Compiler]
    Interpreter -->|Lexical Analysis| Lexer[Hand-Written Lexer]
    Lexer -->|Tokens| Parser[Hand-Written Parser]
    Parser -->|AST Tree| QueryPlanner[Optimizing Query Planner]
    QueryPlanner -->|Physical Execution Plan| VolcanoEngine[Volcano Iterator Execution Engine]
    
    VolcanoEngine -->|Page Operations| PageCache[LRU Page Cache Buffer]
    PageCache -->|CRC32 Page Verification| Pager[Slotted Page Pager]
    Pager -->|Storage Engines| StorageAdapters
    
    subgraph StorageAdapters[Converters & Adapters]
      MemoryStore[MemoryStore: Fast Ephemeral In-Memory Store]
      RowStore[.db: Row-Oriented Slotted Pages]
      ColumnStore[.col_*: Columnar Parquet Store]
      BTreeIndex[.idx: B+ Tree Indexes]
      HnswIndex[.hnsw: HNSW Vector Graph]
      FileAdapter[Universal CSV / JSON / LOG Adapter]
    end
    
    VolcanoEngine -->|Network Server| PgWireServer[TCP Wire Protocol Server]
    VolcanoEngine -->|CRDT State| P2pNode[LWW CRDT Sync Node]

📑 Table of Contents

1. 🌟 Standalone Engine Metrics
2. 🏛️ System Architecture
3. 💎 The 17 Signature Innovations
4. ⚖️ Storage Modes: Switchable Performance
5. 🛠️ SQL & PL/SQL Feature Guide
6. 📄 Converged NoSQL Document Store & Redis-Style KV Engine
7. 🧠 AI-Native HNSW Vector RAG Search
8. 🌐 Network TCP Wire Protocol Server with TLS 1.3
9. 🛡️ WAL CRC32 Crash Recovery & Auto-Indexing
10. 📲 In-Memory LWW CRDT State Merging
11. 📁 Direct File SQL Queries (CSV / JSON / LOG)
12. 🔏 Deterministic Obfuscation (XOR Fast Matching)
13. 🛡️ Enterprise Cybersecurity & Active Tamper Detection
14. ⚡ 2.08M Rows/Sec Durable NVMe Ingestion Pipeline
15. 🖥️ Next-Gen Interactive CLI & Tooling
16. 🤖 Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server & AI Agent Skills
17. 📊 Standalone Engine Performance & Head-to-Head Benchmarks
18. 🚀 Getting Started & Installation
19. 📜 License

💎 The 17 Signature Innovations

UltSQL introduces 17 signature database innovations engineered specifically for high-throughput client and cloud workloads:

1. ⚡ 2.08M Rows/Sec Durable NVMe Ingestion Pipeline: Ingests 2,087,683 rows/sec on physical disk using slotted-page serialization, batch prepared execution, and chunked sequential WAL commit with zero data loss.
2. 🛡️ Enterprise Cybersecurity & Active Tamper Detection: Combines pure-Dart AES-256-CTR encryption with HMAC-SHA256 authenticated envelopes (inPage 4064-byte payload or companion file), PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 (10,000 rounds), cross-page swap prevention, cryptographic memory zeroization, and TLS 1.3 network transport.
3. 🏆 Fast B+ Tree Bulk Indexing: insertSortedBatchSync indexes 50,000 rows in 2.739 ms (2.99x faster than SQLite 3).
4. 🧠 Native HNSW Vector RAG Graph: Cosine & Euclidean similarity search over 768-dim embeddings in 5.0 ms with 100% recall.
5. 🌐 Network TCP Wire Protocol Server with TLS 1.3: Full PostgreSQL v3 wire protocol server with parameter status, backend key negotiation, and dynamic SSL/TLS socket upgrade.
6. 🛡️ WAL CRC32 Crash Recovery Engine: Detects torn writes and crashes with CRC32 checksums, replaying committed transactions and restoring catalog state on startup.
7. 🤖 Autonomous Telemetry Auto-Indexer: Monitors query scan frequencies and automatically provisions B+ Tree indexes.
8. 📁 Universal Direct File SQL Adapter: Runs live SQL queries over standard .csv, .json, and .log files without importing into tables.
9. 🗣️ AI Natural Language to SQL Compiler: Translates natural language prompts into executable SQL statements.
10. 🔐 Searchable Ciphertext (XOR Equality Search): Performs fast equality searches over deterministic repeating-key XOR-encrypted ciphertext.
11. 📲 In-Memory LWW CRDT State Merging: Last-Write-Wins element state merging for multi-device sync workflows (P2pSyncNode).
12. 📦 Zero-Allocation RowMap Tuple Wrapper: Replaces Dart Map instantiations with zero-allocation array index views.
13. ⚡ JIT Compiled Expressions: Compiles SQL WHERE conditions into native Dart closure delegates.
14. 📊 Auto-Optimized Columnar Parquet Store: Automatically converts tables with VECTOR or analytical data into columnar layout.
15. 🔄 MVCC Multi-Version Concurrency Control: Provides lock-free readers, repeatable read isolation, and OS-level multi-process file locking.
16. ⚡ Dual Storage Modes: Switch between sub-millisecond in-memory processing and crash-safe NVMe persistence with a single argument.
17. 📄 Converged Multi-Model NoSQL & Redis-Style KV: Combines MongoDB-style schema-less document collections with dotted-path filtering and atomic mutations ($set, $inc, $push, $pull) alongside a Redis-style TTL key-value engine, queryable directly via SQL bridges (SELECT * FROM collection('users')).

⚖️ Storage Modes: Switchable Performance

Switch between in-memory speed and durable disk storage with a single line of code:

1. ⚡ In-Memory Storage Mode (5,580,357 rows/sec slotted-page batch, sub-microsecond point lookups)

For high-frequency streaming, real-time AI vector search, and temporary session caches:

final db = Database(':memory:');
await db.init();

2. 💾 Durable Disk Storage Mode (3,451,847 rows/sec 50K batch, 2,087,683 rows/sec 1M rows NVMe WAL)

For persistent local application data with ACID crash safety and automatic WAL crash recovery:

final db = Database('/path/to/app_data/my_database');
await db.init();

3. 🔄 Hybrid Ingest & Snapshot

final prep = db.prepare("INSERT INTO users VALUES (?, ?, ?);");
prep.executeBatchSync(batchRows);
await db.flushWalSync(); // Flush WAL snapshot to disk

4. ⚡ High-Speed Public Batch Ingestion (insertBatch & insertBatchRecords)

Ingest hundreds of thousands of records per second with automatic slotted-page layout, B+ Tree indexing, and instant SQL queryability:

// Option A: Batch insert rows with column mapping
await engine.insertBatch('users', [
  [1, 'Alice', 98.5],
  [2, 'Bob', 91.2],
], columns: ['id', 'name', 'score']);

// Option B: Batch insert structured records (JSON maps)
await engine.insertBatchRecords('users', [
  {'id': 1, 'name': 'Alice', 'score': 98.5},
  {'id': 2, 'name': 'Bob', 'score': 91.2},
]);

🛠️ SQL & PL/SQL Feature Guide

Data Definition Language (DDL) & Metadata Inspection

-- Enhanced DDL with IF NOT EXISTS / IF EXISTS and TRUNCATE
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS users (
  id UUID PRIMARY KEY,
  name VARCHAR(250),
  active BOOL DEFAULT true,
  created_at TIMESTAMP,
  balance DECIMAL,
  payload BLOB,
  metadata JSON,
  embedding VECTOR
);

-- DDL & Catalog Inspection Commands
DESCRIBE users;
SHOW COLUMNS FROM users;
SHOW SCHEMAS;
PRAGMA table_info('users');

-- Query System Catalog Views
SELECT table_name, column_name, data_type 
FROM information_schema.columns 
WHERE table_name = 'users';

Data Manipulation, UPSERT & Series Generation

-- Series Generator
SELECT * FROM generate_series(1, 10, 2);

-- Standard DML & Multi-Row Inserts
INSERT INTO users VALUES ('a0eebc99-9c0b-4ef8-bb6d-6bb9bd380a11', 'Alice', true, NOW(), 1500.50, NULL, '{"role": "admin"}', '[0.12, 0.85]');

-- UPSERT (ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE / DO NOTHING) & REPLACE INTO
INSERT INTO users (id, name, balance) VALUES ('a0eebc99-9c0b-4ef8-bb6d-6bb9bd380a11', 'Alice', 2000.00)
ON CONFLICT (id) DO UPDATE SET balance = 2000.00;

INSERT INTO users (id, name) VALUES ('a0eebc99-9c0b-4ef8-bb6d-6bb9bd380a11', 'Alice')
ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING;

REPLACE INTO users VALUES ('a0eebc99-9c0b-4ef8-bb6d-6bb9bd380a11', 'Alice Updated', true, NOW(), 2500.00, NULL, '{}', '[0.1, 0.2]');

Casting, Regex & Developer Functions

-- ANSI CAST & PostgreSQL :: Typecasting
SELECT balance::TEXT, CAST(active AS INT), name::VARCHAR FROM users;

-- ILIKE (Case-Insensitive) & Regex Matching (~ operator and REGEXP_LIKE)
SELECT * FROM users WHERE name ILIKE 'alice%' OR email ~ '^[a-z]+@';
SELECT REGEXP_LIKE('support@ultsql.tech', '^[a-z]+@[a-z]+\.[a-z]+$');

-- Developer Scalar & Math Functions
SELECT 
  COALESCE(NULL, 'default_val'),
  NULLIF(10, 10),
  GREATEST(10, 50, 20),
  LEAST(10, 50, 20),
  CONCAT_WS('-', '2026', '08', '06'),
  TYPEOF(100),
  GEN_RANDOM_UUID(),
  ABS(-42), ROUND(3.14159, 2), CEIL(4.2), FLOOR(4.8), POW(2, 3), SQRT(16),
  REPLACE('hello world', 'world', 'ultsql'), SPLIT_PART('a.b.c', '.', 2), INITCAP('hello world'),
  DATE_ADD('2026-08-06', 10), DATE_SUB('2026-08-06', 5), EXTRACT('year', NOW()),
  VERSION();

-- UPSERT & Conflict Resolution (PostgreSQL & SQLite Syntax)
INSERT INTO users (id, name, score) VALUES (1, 'Alice', 100)
ON CONFLICT (id) DO NOTHING;

INSERT INTO users (id, name, score) VALUES (1, 'Alice', 250)
ON CONFLICT (id) DO UPDATE SET score = EXCLUDED.score;

REPLACE INTO users (id, name, score) VALUES (1, 'Bob', 300);

PL/SQL Procedural Script Execution

DECLARE
  counter INT := 0;
  total DOUBLE := 0.0;
BEGIN
  DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Starting calculation...');
  
  WHILE counter < 5 LOOP
    counter := counter + 1;
    total := total + (counter * 100.5);
    
    IF counter % 2 = 0 THEN
      DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Iteration ' || counter || ': EVEN total=' || total);
    ELSE
      DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Iteration ' || counter || ': ODD total=' || total);
    END IF;
  END LOOP;

  DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Calculations Completed.');
END;

📄 Converged NoSQL Document Store & Redis-Style KV Engine

ULTSQL unifies relational tables, schema-less document collections, and high-speed key-value caching into a single database file. There is no need to run separate MongoDB, Redis, and SQLite daemons-one engine handles all models with physical ACID crash safety, WAL durability, and optional AES-256 authenticated encryption.

graph TD
    App[📱 Flutter / Dart / CLI Application] --> DB[⚡ Database Core: Slotted-Page Engine]
    
    subgraph MultiModel[Converged Multi-Model Layer]
        SQL[📊 Relational SQL & PL/SQL]
        DOC[📄 Document Store: db.collection]
        KV[🔑 Key-Value Cache: db.kv]
        VEC[🧠 AI Vector Search: HNSW]
    end

    DB --> SQL
    DB --> DOC
    DB --> KV
    DB --> VEC
    
    DOC -.->|Cross-Model Bridge| SQL
    SQL -.->|JSON Operators ->>| DOC

1. MongoDB-Style Document Collections (db.collection)

Store and query schema-less JSON documents with auto-generated UUID _id primary keys, deep dotted-path filtering, and cursor pagination:

import 'package:ultsql/ultsql.dart';

final db = Database('./app_data');
await db.init();

final users = db.collection('users');

// Insert a document (auto-generates UUID _id if omitted)
final doc = await users.insertOne({
  'name': 'Alice',
  'email': 'alice@example.com',
  'role': 'admin',
  'profile': {
    'score': 98500,
    'badges': ['founder', 'mvp'],
    'location': {'city': 'San Francisco', 'country': 'USA'}
  }
});
print('Created user with ID: ${doc.id}');

// Bulk ingestion (51,073 docs/sec)
await users.insertMany([
  {'name': 'Bob', 'role': 'developer', 'profile': {'score': 82000}},
  {'name': 'Charlie', 'role': 'designer', 'profile': {'score': 74000}},
]);

// Point read by ID (3.61 µs)
final found = await users.findOne({'_id': doc.id});
print('Found: ${found?['name']}');

// Deep nested dotted-path queries with pagination & sorting (2,500,000 docs/sec scanned)
final cursor = users.find({
  'profile.score': {'$gte': 80000},
  'role': {'$in': ['admin', 'developer']},
})
.sort({'profile.score': -1})
.skip(0)
.limit(10);

final results = await cursor.toList();
for (final u in results) {
  print('${u['name']}: ${u.getByPath('profile.score')}');
}

Rich MongoDB Filter Operators

2. Atomic In-Place Document Mutations

Perform atomic updates directly on nested paths without round-tripping full documents:

// Atomic increment, field update, and array push
await users.updateOne(
  {'name': 'Alice'},
  {
    '$set': {'profile.location.city': 'New York'},
    '$inc': {'profile.score': 500},
    '$push': {'profile.badges': 'lead'},
  },
);

// Mass-update matching records
await users.updateMany(
  {'role': 'guest'},
  {'$set': {'tier': 'standard', 'active': true}},
);

// Delete operations
await users.deleteOne({'name': 'Charlie'});
await users.deleteMany({'active': false});

Supported Atomic Mutation Operators

• $set: Sets specific fields or deep nested paths ('profile.address.zip': 94105).
• $unset: Removes specified keys from documents.
• $inc: Atomically adds or subtracts numerical values ('$inc': {'views': 1}).
• $mul: Multiplies numeric fields ('$mul': {'score': 1.1}).
• $push: Appends elements to an array (with optional {'$each': [...]}).
• $pull: Removes all matching elements from an array.
• $addToSet: Appends unique values to an array only if they don't already exist.
• $min / $max: Updates a field only if the new value is less than / greater than the current value.

3. Redis-Style High-Throughput Key-Value Engine (db.kv)

ULTSQL includes an embedded, high-throughput Key-Value cache with hot in-memory lookups (1,282,051 ops/sec), atomic WAL persistence, TTL expiration, and atomic counters:

// Set with TTL expiration
await db.kv.set('session:1001', 'xyz_token_payload', ttl: Duration(hours: 1));

// Hot in-memory read (< 1 µs latency)
final token = await db.kv.get('session:1001');

// Batch ingestion (73,314 ops/sec via sequential WAL commit)
await db.kv.mset({
  'config:timeout': 30,
  'config:retries': 3,
  'config:endpoint': 'https://api.ultsql.com',
});

// Bulk read
final configs = await db.kv.mget(['config:timeout', 'config:retries']);

// Atomic counters with durable WAL logging
final pageViews = await db.kv.incr('metrics:page_views'); // 1
await db.kv.incr('metrics:page_views', by: 5);          // 6
await db.kv.decr('metrics:active_connections');

// Key prefix scans & deletes
final matchingKeys = await db.kv.keys('config:*');
await db.kv.delete('session:1001');

4. Cross-Model SQL ↔ NoSQL Bridge

Query document collections using relational SQL with dotted-path JSON navigation (->>), or join relational tables with schema-less collections in the same statement:

-- Query collection directly via SQL bridge
SELECT 
  _id,
  doc->>'name' AS name,
  (doc->>'profile.score')::INT AS score,
  doc->>'role' AS role
FROM collection('users')
WHERE doc->>'role' = 'admin' AND (doc->>'profile.score')::INT > 80000
ORDER BY score DESC;

-- Join a relational SQL table with a NoSQL document collection
SELECT 
  o.order_id, 
  o.amount, 
  u.doc->>'name' AS customer_name,
  u.doc->>'email' AS customer_email
FROM orders o
JOIN collection('users') u ON o.user_id = u._id
WHERE o.amount > 500.0;

5. CLI Mongo Shell Syntax & Meta Commands

Use MongoDB-style commands directly in the ultsql CLI or headless CI/CD scripts:

# Interactive REPL: ultsql app.db
ultsql app.db

# Ingest via Mongo shell syntax
db.users.insertOne({"name": "Diana", "role": "admin", "score": 95000})

# Query with filters and limits
db.users.find({"score": {"$gte": 90000}}).limit(5)

# In-place atomic update
db.users.updateOne({"name": "Diana"}, {"$inc": {"score": 500}})

# Count documents
db.users.count({"role": "admin"})

# Redis-style KV commands in REPL
db.kv.set("rate_limit:user1", "100", 60)
db.kv.get("rate_limit:user1")

# Dedicated REPL dot-commands
.collections                        # List all collections and document counts
.kv list config:*                   # Scan keys matching wildcard pattern
.kv set app:theme dark              # Set persistent KV entry
.kv get app:theme                   # Get KV entry

🧠 AI-Native HNSW Vector RAG Search

Create an HNSW index and execute 5.0 ms vector similarity queries (100% recall):

CREATE INDEX idx_products_emb ON products (embedding) USING HNSW;

SELECT name, vector_distance(embedding, '[0.12, 0.85, -0.44]') AS dist
FROM products
ORDER BY dist ASC
LIMIT 5;

🌐 Network TCP Wire Protocol Server

UltSQL embeds a full Network TCP Wire Protocol server. Connect directly using network database drivers:

final pgServer = PgWireServer(db: db, port: 5432);
await pgServer.start();
print('TCP Wire Protocol Server running on port 5432...');

🛡️ WAL CRC32 Crash Recovery & Auto-Indexing

UltSQL features an ACID-compliant write-ahead log (wal.log) with CRC32 checksums. If a crash or abrupt power loss occurs, WalRecoveryEngine verifies record checksums, automatically rolls back uncommitted writes, restores catalog state, and replays committed pages on engine initialization (Database.init()):

-- Enable automated autovacuum & telemetry index recommendations
SET engine_option enable_autovacuum = true;
SET engine_option auto_create_indexes = true;

📲 In-Memory LWW CRDT State Merging

UltSQL includes in-memory Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDT) for resolving concurrent offline updates using Last-Write-Wins (LWW) semantics:

import 'package:ultsql/src/engine/network/p2p_sync.dart';

final nodeA = P2pSyncNode('device_A');
nodeA.localState.update('user:101', {'name': 'Alice'}, DateTime.now().millisecondsSinceEpoch);

final remoteState = CrdtState();
remoteState.update('user:101', {'name': 'Alice Smith'}, DateTime.now().millisecondsSinceEpoch + 1000);

// Merges remote state into local state using LWW timestamps
final updated = nodeA.mergePeerState(remoteState);

📁 Direct File SQL Queries (CSV / JSON / LOG)

Execute standard SQL queries directly over external files without ETL or table imports:

final fileAdapter = UniversalFileAdapter();

// Query external CSV file directly using SQL
final csvResults = fileAdapter.queryCsvSync(
  filePath: '/data/logs.csv',
  sqlQuery: "SELECT * FROM file WHERE status = 'ERROR'",
);

🔏 Deterministic Obfuscation (XOR Fast Matching)

Perform fast deterministic equality lookups over repeating-key XOR obfuscated strings without decrypting full database records on disk:

-- 1. Create table with obfuscated fields
CREATE TABLE secure_tokens (id INT, cipher TEXT);

-- 2. Insert deterministically obfuscated ciphertext via zk_encrypt
INSERT INTO secure_tokens VALUES (1, zk_encrypt('credit_card_4111', 'my_secret_key'));

-- 3. Query obfuscated tokens safely without decrypting records
SELECT id, zk_decrypt(cipher, 'my_secret_key') as plain 
FROM secure_tokens 
WHERE zk_match(cipher, 'credit_card_4111', 'my_secret_key') = true;

🛡️ Enterprise Cybersecurity & Active Tamper Detection

ULTSQL provides pure-Dart authenticated encryption with active disk-tamper trapping, cryptographic memory zeroization, strict pre-flight authorization, and dynamic TLS 1.3 socket negotiation:

1. Dual Authenticated Envelopes & User Preferences

Every encrypted database page is wrapped with an HMAC-SHA256 signature calculated over pageId || ciphertext. Developers can switch between two physical envelope strategies based on deployment needs:

• AuthEnvelopeMode.inPage (Default / Recommended for Mobile & Single-File Deployments):
  • Embeds a 32-byte HMAC-SHA256 authentication tag in the tail of every 4096-byte slotted page (leaving a 4064-byte user data payload).
  • Completely self-contained and crash-safe with zero extra companion files. Ideal for mobile apps, edge devices, and embedded Flutter deployments.
• AuthEnvelopeMode.companion (Recommended for High-Capacity Relational Workloads):
  • Retains full 4096-byte slotted page payloads in the main table file.
  • Authentication tags are stored in a dedicated companion $table.auth file indexed by pageId * 32.
  • Ideal when maximizing byte density per slotted page and preserving raw 4096-byte alignments is paramount.

import 'package:ultsql/ultsql.dart';

// Option A: In-Page Envelope (4064-byte payload + 32-byte embedded HMAC tail)
final dbInPage = Database(
  './secure_db',
  passphrase: 'your-secure-passphrase',
  authEnvelopeMode: AuthEnvelopeMode.inPage, // Default: self-contained single-file
);
await dbInPage.init();

// Option B: Companion File Envelope (full 4096-byte payload, tags stored in $table.auth)
final dbCompanion = Database(
  './secure_db_companion',
  passphrase: 'your-secure-passphrase',
  authEnvelopeMode: AuthEnvelopeMode.companion,
);
await dbCompanion.init();

2. Strict Pre-Flight Access Control & Tamper Trapping

ULTSQL enforces cryptographic verification at the front door before any table page or catalog metadata is read:

• Missing Passphrase Trap: Attempting to open an encrypted database without a passphrase immediately throws DatabaseIntegrityException("Database is encrypted. Passphrase required.").
• Invalid Passphrase Trap: Supplying an incorrect passphrase fails the pre-flight verification marker test in constant time and immediately throws DatabaseIntegrityException("Invalid database passphrase or corrupted security metadata.").
• Active Bit-Flip & Swap Trapping: The HMAC tag binds pageId || ciphertext. If an attacker flips a single bit or attempts to swap page files on disk, the signature check fails and throws DatabaseIntegrityException before page deserialization, preventing cold-data tampering and memory poisoning.
• Constant-Time Verification: Uses CryptoSecurity.constantTimeEquals to eliminate timing side-channel attacks during authentication.

3. Key Derivation & Memory Zeroization

• PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256: 10,000 iterations using a cryptographically secure 16-byte random salt (Random.secure()) generates separate 256-bit encryption (AES-256-CTR) and authentication (HMAC-SHA256) keys.
• Memory Zeroization: Calling db.close() immediately invokes DerivedKeys.wipe(), overwriting all in-memory cryptographic key buffers with zeros to protect against memory inspection, RAM dumps, and cold-boot attacks.

4. Dynamic TLS 1.3 Transport Encryption (PGWire Server)

The PostgreSQL wire protocol daemon (ultsql pgwire --port 5432 or .pgwire [port]) dynamically negotiates TLS 1.3 encrypted transport:

• Automatically detects client SSLRequest packets (80877103), responds with 'S', and performs an in-place socket upgrade using SecureSocket.secureServer(socket, securityContext).
• Fully compatible with psql "sslmode=require", Python psycopg2, Node pg, and standard database GUIs (DBeaver, TablePlus).

⚡ 2.08M Rows/Sec Durable NVMe Ingestion Pipeline

ULTSQL achieves 2,087,683 rows/sec sustained bulk ingestion directly to physical disk with full ACID Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) durability:

final db = Database('./telemetry_db', useWal: true, maxCapacity: 100000);
await db.init();
final interpreter = Interpreter(db);

await interpreter.executeScript('CREATE TABLE logs (ts INT, val INT, message TEXT);');

// Batch ingestion using prepared statement
await interpreter.executeScript('BEGIN TRANSACTION;');
final stmt = db.prepare('INSERT INTO logs VALUES (?, ?, ?);');
stmt.executeBatchSync(batchParams); // Ingests 1,000,000 rows in 175 ms
await interpreter.executeScript('COMMIT;'); // Flushes sequential WAL in 300 ms (total: 479 ms, 2,087,683 rows/sec)

await db.close(); // Flushes all buffers to disk

// Verified zero-loss durability on disk:
final verifyDb = Database('./telemetry_db', useWal: true);
await verifyDb.init();
final count = await Interpreter(verifyDb).executeScript('SELECT count(*) FROM logs;');
print(count.rows[0][0]); // Output: 1000000

🖥️ Next-Gen Interactive CLI & Tooling

UltSQL includes a standalone developer CLI with a high-performance interactive REPL, multi-mode output formatters, headless scripting flags, and specialized subcommands.

1. Subcommands

Live Ingestion Benchmark Runner

ultsql bench 1000000

Outputs live latency breakdown (BEGIN, batch insert, WAL commit flush) and re-verifies 1,000,000 rows directly from disk after closing buffers.

2. Headless Scripting & CI/CD (-c / --execute)

Execute SQL queries headlessly from scripts, CI/CD pipelines, or UNIX pipes:

# Formatted Unicode Box
ultsql app.db -c "SELECT id, name, score FROM users LIMIT 5;" -m box

# JSON Output piped directly to jq
ultsql app.db -c "SELECT * FROM users WHERE active = true;" -m json | jq .

# CSV Output for data exports
ultsql app.db -c "SELECT * FROM orders;" -m csv > orders.csv

# Markdown format for automated documentation
ultsql app.db -c "SELECT name, count(*) as count FROM events GROUP BY name;" -m markdown

Output Formatting Modes (-m, --mode)

• box: Unicode box-drawing table with clean cell boundaries (┌─┬─┐).
• table: Standard ASCII table format (+-+-+).
• json: Pretty-printed JSON array of objects.
• csv: RFC 4180 compliant CSV stream with automatic header escaping.
• markdown: GitHub Flavored Markdown table.
• line: Key-value vertical display ideal for inspect-heavy schemas.

3. Interactive REPL Meta Commands

Launch an interactive terminal session with persistent history (~/.ultsql_history):

ultsql app.db

Within the REPL, use SQLite/Postgres-style dot commands:

4. Interactive Security & Encryption Flags

Open an encrypted database directly via CLI flags or let the terminal prompt interactively:

# Non-interactive / Headless with passphrase and envelope preference:
ultsql secure_db --key "my-secret-passphrase" --envelope inPage

# Interactive launch with masked password prompt:
ultsql secure_db

When opened without the --key flag, the CLI detects security.meta and securely prompts with masked input (stdin.echoMode = false):

Database 'secure.db' is encrypted with AES-256-CTR + HMAC-SHA256.
Enter passphrase: [Hidden]
✔ Unlocked database. Encryption: inPage (4064-byte payload + 32-byte HMAC tag).

🤖 Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server & AI Agent Skills

UltSQL ships with a native, high-performance Model Context Protocol (MCP) server (bin/ultsql_mcp_server.dart) and official Agent Skills (.agents/skills/ultsql/SKILL.md), allowing AI agents (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Antigravity, VS Code Roo Code, Windsurf) to directly create tables, execute high-speed relational queries, store schema-less JSON documents, cache key-value sessions, and perform AI vector similarity searches with zero native setup.

1. Launching the MCP Server

# Via standalone CLI executable
ultsql mcp

# Via Dart SDK directly
dart run bin/ultsql_mcp_server.dart

2. Client Setup & Configuration

Add UltSQL to your MCP client configuration:

Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ultsql": {
      "command": "dart",
      "args": ["run", "bin/ultsql_mcp_server.dart"]
    }
  }
}

Cursor, Antigravity, Windsurf (mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ultsql": {
      "command": "ultsql",
      "args": ["mcp"]
    }
  }
}

3. The 9 Native MCP Tools

4. Native AI Agent Skill (.agents/skills/ultsql)

The repository includes a turnkey agent skill at .agents/skills/ultsql/SKILL.md. Compatible coding agents automatically discover this skill to execute database tasks in pure Dart without having to configure external Postgres or SQLite binaries.

📊 Standalone Engine Performance Metrics

🥊 Native Standalone Binary: UltSQL vs Native C SQLite 3 (Zero Dart Runtime)

To evaluate raw native engine performance with zero Dart VM, zero JIT, and zero Dart SDK runtime overhead, UltSQL compiles into a standalone native AOT executable (ultsql.exe / ultsql) and benchmarks directly against the native C library SQLite 3 (sqlite3.dll v3.50.4) on high-speed NVMe storage across 50,000 rows using a pure Python 3 harness:

Result: UltSQL Won 10 / 10 benchmarks against native C SQLite3 with 2x to 694x speedups.

🔍 Durability & Storage Semantics (The Auto-Commit Breakdown)

1. SQLite Default (PRAGMA synchronous = FULL): In standard auto-commit mode without an explicit BEGIN TRANSACTION, SQLite issues a blocking OS fsync() system call on every single commit (0.5–1.0 ms on NVMe SSDs). This physically caps SQLite at 1,077 single-row commits/sec, regardless of CPU speed.
2. SQLite Relaxed Sync (PRAGMA synchronous = NORMAL): Syncs at critical checkpoints rather than on every single commit, reaching 98,546 tx/s.
3. UltSQL Slotted Page WAL Engine: Appends transactions sequentially into an ARIES Write-Ahead Log with CRC32 integrity checksums and group-commit buffering, achieving 563,380 tx/s (5.72x faster than SQLite NORMAL sync; 523x faster than per-row fsync).

Reproduce Native Comparison Locally (Python 3 only, zero Dart needed):

python tool/benchmarks/benchmark_native_sqlite_vs_ultsql.py

📊 Summary Scorecard (Multimodal & Cross-Engine)

📋 Comprehensive 20-Workload Audit Table (Verified NVMe Empirical Benchmarks)

Empirical statistical medians across 3 timed runs per workload comparing ULTSQL against native C SQLite 3 on physical NVMe storage:

⚡ 1,000,000 Rows/Sec Durable NVMe Breakdown & Standalone Metrics

Empirical performance measurements recorded on physical NVMe SSD with WAL durability:

===============================================================
⚡ ULTSQL 1,000,000 ROWS/SEC DURABLE NVME BENCHMARK ⚡
===============================================================
Database Directory : benchmark_durable_1m_db
Durability Mode    : Physical NVMe SSD + Write-Ahead Log (WAL)
Row Count          : 1,000,000 Rows
Schema             : (ts INT, val INT, message TEXT)

Breakdown:
  - BEGIN TRANSACTION : 4 ms
  - BATCH INSERTION   : 175 ms
  - WAL COMMIT FLUSH  : 300 ms
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total Elapsed Time : 479 ms (0.479 s)
Ingestion Rate     : 2,087,683 rows/sec
Persistence Check  : 1,000,000 rows verified on disk (ZERO loss)
===============================================================

======================================================
⚡ ULTSQL STANDALONE ENGINE BENCHMARKS (100,000 ROWS) ⚡
======================================================
1. Disk Storage Mode Throughput (WAL Enabled):
   - 1M Durable Disk Ingestion: 2,087,683 rows/sec (Sequential WAL commit)
   - Direct Slotted-Page Vector Ingestion: 5,580,357 rows/sec (Vectorized binary serialization)
   - Bulk Ingest (50K Batch on NVMe): 3,451,847 rows/sec (Physical NVMe batch with WAL flush)
   - Public Batch API (insertBatch): 4,071,661 rows/sec (Direct API with auto-indexing & stats)
   - PL/SQL Transaction Loop: 212,450 rows/sec (In-engine JIT loop, B+ Tree indexing)
   - Single-Tx Auto-Commit Pipeline: 563,380 tx/sec (Sequential WAL group-commit flush)

2. B+ Tree Index Build (50,000 Rows):
   - UltSQL Bulk Index: 2.739 ms (Bulk B+ Tree Indexing via insertSortedBatchSync)

3. Multimodal Features:
   - 768-Dim HNSW Vector Search: 5.0 ms query latency (ANN search over 10,000 768-dim embeddings, 100% Recall@10 against brute-force)
   - Network TCP Wire Server: Port 5432 (PostgreSQL v3 Wire Protocol + TLS 1.3)
   - WAL Crash Recovery: Automated CRC32 Replay on Startup
   - Offline CRDT State: In-Memory LWW-CRDT State Merging
======================================================

🏆 Head-to-Head Converged NoSQL & Multi-Model Database Comparison

Empirical benchmarks comparing ULTSQL against standalone document databases (MongoDB v7.0 local daemon), embedded relational engines with JSON extensions (SQLite JSON1 via FFI), and Dart mobile key-value stores (Hive/Sembast).

Run the open harness locally:

# ULTSQL NoSQL & KV benchmark suite (generates verified output below)
dart run tool/benchmarks/benchmark_nosql_comparison.dart

# ULTSQL vs SQLite comparative benchmark harness (relational, nosql, kv, vector)
dart run tool/benchmarks/run_all.dart --rows 100000 --runs 3

(Note: SQLite JSON1 numbers are directly measured via tool/benchmarks/run_all.dart. MongoDB v7.0 WiredTiger and Hive v2 metrics represent verified baseline reference workloads executed locally on equivalent NVMe hardware with synchronous commits enabled).

Live NoSQL Benchmark Output

================================================================================
          ⚡ ULTSQL CONVERGED NoSQL & KEY-VALUE BENCHMARK SUITE ⚡          
================================================================================
📁 Database Directory : benchmark_nosql_db
💾 Storage Mode       : Slotted-Page Engine + WAL Sequential Persistence
🔒 Engine Core        : 100% Pure Multiplatform Dart (Zero Native Dependencies)

Generating 100000 structured JSON documents in memory...
🚀 Ingesting 100000 documents via collection.insertMany()...
✔ Inserted 100000 documents in 741 ms (134953 docs/sec)

🔍 Executing 10000 point reads by _id via collection.findOne()...
✔ Verified 10000/10000 point reads: avg latency 3.61 µs (277778 reads/sec)

⚡ Executing deep nested filter query: profile.score > 95000...
✔ Filter matched 4999 documents in 40 ms (2500000 docs/sec scanned)

🔄 Executing 100 atomic in-place updates ($inc, $set)...
✔ Completed 100/100 atomic updates in 55 ms (1818 updates/sec)

🔑 Ingesting 50000 Key-Value pairs with TTL via db.kv.mset()...
✔ KV Batch Ingestion (mset): 253807 ops/sec (197 ms)

🔑 Reading 50000 keys from Hot Cache via db.kv.get()...
✔ KV Get Throughput: 500000 ops/sec (found 50000/50000 in 100 ms)

🔑 Executing 100 atomic counter increments via db.kv.incr()...
✔ KV Incr Latency: 0.21 ms/op (4762 ops/sec, counter = 100)

🔒 Flushing buffers and closing database...
🔍 Reopening database to verify physical zero-loss persistence...
✔ Persisted Documents Verified : 100000 (expected: 100000)
✔ Persisted Counter Verified   : 100 (expected: 100)
================================================================================

dart run tool/benchmarks/benchmark_live_comparison.dart     # Relational & Vector Benchmarks
dart run tool/benchmarks/benchmark_nosql_comparison.dart    # NoSQL & Key-Value Benchmarks
python tool/benchmarks/benchmark_native_sqlite_vs_ultsql.py # Standalone Native AOT Benchmarks

🛡️ Concurrency, Scalability & Architecture

ULTSQL provides converged local single-node performance alongside advanced multi-node and synchronization subsystems:

• Substring & Wildcard Indexing: Wildcard queries like LIKE '%query%' can be accelerated via CREATE INDEX idx_name ON table(col) USING TRIGRAM;. This creates an inverted 3-gram index that directly pinpoints candidate slotted pages and eliminates sequential table scans.
• Multi-Process Concurrency: Multi-process concurrency supports shared read-only locks (Database(path, readOnly: true) using FileLock.shared) alongside short-lived exclusive writer locks. Configurable lock timeout backoff (lockTimeout: Duration(seconds: 3)) prevents immediate lock exceptions under write contention.
• P2P Delta-CRDT & Streaming FDW: Multi-device synchronization is powered by delta-state CRDTs with Hybrid Logical Clocks (HLC) and deletion tombstones (P2pSyncNode). External CSV/JSON files are queried via streaming RFC 4180 Foreign Data Wrappers (FdwManager) without whole-file memory buffering.
• Distributed Raft Consensus Engine: Distributed multi-node clustering and State Machine Replication (SMR) are available via RaftClusterNode with randomized election timers, leader heartbeats, and quorum log replication ((N/2)+1).

🚀 Getting Started & Installation

Prerequisites

• Dart SDK 3.4+ or Flutter SDK 3.22+

Installation

1. Clone repository:

   git clone https://github.com/ompatel3158/ULTSQL.git
   cd ULTSQL
   

2. Install dependencies:

   dart pub get
   

3. Run the comprehensive test suite:

   dart test
   

4. Run the interactive CLI:

   dart run bin/ultsql_cli.dart
   

📜 License & Terms

ULTSQL is licensed under the Functional Source License, Version 1.1, MIT Future License (FSL-1.1-MIT).

• ✅ Free & Royalty-Free: Permitted for commercial applications, personal projects, SaaS applications, education, and research.
• 🔓 Automatic MIT Conversion: Every release automatically and irrevocably converts to the standard permissive MIT License 2 years after publication.
• 🚫 No Forced Attribution: No requirement to display "Powered by ULTSQL" badges or logos.
• ☁️ Competing Use Restriction: Offering ULTSQL as a commercial managed database service (DBaaS) requires a commercial agreement from the copyright holder.

License History

• v1.0.0: MIT License
• v1.0.1 – v1.0.17: BSD-3-Clause License
• v1.0.18+: Functional Source License (FSL-1.1-MIT)

Copyright: Copyright (c) 2026 Om Patel (support@ultsql.tech). All rights reserved.

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