Introducing CameoDB.ai: Your Intelligence Layer, Installed
Meet CameoDB.ai: we install your intelligence layer, so your AI answers from your own data.
Writing
Engineering notes
Releases, architecture and benchmarks from the engine. 12 posts.
Announcement
Release v0.3.5
CameoDB v0.3.5: Commits on a Clock and 370,000 Docs a Second
Commits on a clock, 370,000 durable docs a second, searches that scale with cores, and tenants on one node.
Release v0.3.1
CameoDB v0.3.1: Secure by Default, With Paging and Exact Sorting
Keys with roles and index scope, HTTPS, an audit trail, plus paging and exact sorting everywhere.
Release v0.2.3
CameoDB v0.2.3: Battle-Tested Stability for Agentic AI Workflows
MCP Streamable HTTP, cross-node sorting, jemalloc memory management and writer core pinning.
Data Loading
From Zero to a Million Jokes: Loading Hugging Face Datasets into CameoDB
One CLI command, one million Reddit jokes from Hugging Face, fully indexed and searchable.
MCP Server
Native MCP Server: Give AI Agents Direct Database Access
How CameoDB's built-in MCP server lets Claude, Cursor and Windsurf query your data directly.
Performance
Fast by Design: Benchmarking CameoDB
Where CameoDB's speed comes from, and the numbers cameodb-bench measures on a single node.
Leaderless Mesh
Leaderless Mesh: How CameoDB Scales Without Consensus
Zero master nodes, no Raft, no Paxos. Consistent hashing places the data and Kademlia finds the peers.
Full-Text Search
Search Everything: Full-Text Indexing with Tantivy Under the Hood
Inverted indexes, BM25 scoring, phrase queries and field boosting: how Tantivy powers search in CameoDB.
Hybrid Storage
Redb + Tantivy: The Atomic Dual-Engine at CameoDB's Core
ACID key-value storage and full-text search behind one write path, with Redb as the source of truth.
Release v0.2.2
CameoDB v0.2.2: A Native MCP Server, Sorting and Compressed Sources
The native MCP server, sorting inline or in JSON, and transparent gzip and zip sources.
Transaction Model
ACID Guarantees in a Leaderless World: CameoDB's Transaction Model
How CameoDB keeps every write ACID across a leaderless mesh, with no consensus on the data path.