sqldoom
A purely SQL-based reimplementation of the original 1993 DOOM running on CedarDB
Details
- External ID
- 1381629934
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- sqldoom
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 19
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5840379195490648
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 10:54 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 10:54 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- web development and browser utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- sql implementation of doom for cedardb
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Implementing the entire 1993 DOOM engine (including BSP tree traversal, software rasterization, game state machine, and tick loops) purely in relational SQL queries on CedarDB is an extraordinary systems engineering feat. It requires deep expertise in database query engines, complex relational mathematics, and low-level game engine architecture.
What it would actually take: The architecture involves mapping DOOM's WAD format and level structures into relational tables and translating the BSP tree rendering pipeline and game tick updates into recursive CTEs, window functions, and complex SQL joins inside CedarDB. The hardest part is implementing raycasting/rasterization and collision detection entirely within SQL set operations without procedural game loops. This requires expert-level knowledge of both DOOM internals and relational database query execution internals.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 891 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #366 of 892 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 326 days after the earliest competitor.
- Advent of SQL · hn · 2025-12-11 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Stratum · hn · 2026-03-12 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- doom-os · github · 2026-09-28 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Dogicat_DMS · github · 2026-09-22 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- VaultSQL · hn · 2026-06-06 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Tonbo · hn · 2025-12-17 · 56 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- harbor-db · github · 2026-09-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- lead · github · 2026-09-17 · 144 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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