Show HN: FBSimCity – an explorable city that shows how Firebird works

Category: database

Tags: firebird, database-internals, visualization, education, mvcc

Score: 6.0/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 6, Documentation: 3, Utility: 5)

FBSimCity is an interactive, explorable city visualization that illustrates the internal architecture of the Firebird database, including page structures, record versioning, and multi-generational concurrency control. It makes complex database internals accessible through a metaphor of city blocks, which is an interesting approach for learning and teaching.

Target audience: database developers, students, and educators

Repository: https://mariuz.github.io/FBSimCity/

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