Tag: states

I play with a toy database based on a big bitarray. I am thinking of storing special things within the value (coding like VLQ, Variable Length Quantity). Things like if the value is synchronized with the cloud or parent / child sort, or if there is an error, or if it is an address versus an actual value.

I have been inspired by this a long time ago

Here they have the ID of the disk storage information about which computers they are stored on (I think). Maybe they also store more information in the ID. All I know is that it's an interesting way to encrypt data.

I wonder if there are other sources of inspiration to store this kind of data in a binary format. Maybe the TCP protocol or other things that use binary data to store complex information. Maybe not as complicated as an image or a document, but similar to saving the status of a synced record in the cloud. Is there such a thing out there? What else do you think about how it could be encoded into a bit array?