🔥 Key Design Principles (IMPORTANT)

1️⃣ Lazy Folder Creation (Very Important)

❌ User folder is NOT created immediately

Instead:

• User identity is validated

• Path is resolved

• Folder is created only when required

• Prevents:

  • Empty folders
  • Garbage structure
  • Orphaned users

📌 This is why HBH-DBMS scales better than native file DBs.

2️⃣ Chunk-Based Storage (Large Scale Ready)

To avoid filesystem limits (10k+ folders problem), HBH-DBMS:

• Splits data into chunks
• Uses multi-level nesting
• Distributes load evenly

Example:

Users/
 └── Ae/
     └── Alice@example.com/

📌 This prevents:

• Slow directory reads
• OS inode pressure
• FS traversal slowdown

3️⃣ Deterministic Path Resolution

Every entity path is:

• Derived from its ID
• Deterministic
• Rebuildable at any time

Meaning:

• No central index dependency
• No corruption cascade
• Easy recovery

4️⃣ Strict Hierarchical Ownership

User
 └── Product
      └── Channel
           └── Content

Rules:

• ❌ Product cannot exist without User
• ❌ Channel cannot exist without Product
• ❌ Content cannot exist without Channel

This guarantees:

• Data integrity
• Clean deletes
• No orphan files