Contributor Guide

This guide explains the internal design of GreptimeDB for contributors. Start with Getting Started to build and run it from source. Submission requirements, including the CLA, license headers, formatting, and the checks a pull request must pass, are maintained in the source repository's CONTRIBUTING.md.

Architecture

For the architecture and components of GreptimeDB, please see the Architecture document in the user guide.

For more details on each component, see the following guides:

• frontend
• datanode
• metasrv
• flownode

Additional reference

DeepWiki provides an automatically generated walkthrough of the GreptimeDB repository. It can help when exploring an unfamiliar area, but it is a secondary reference: verify version-sensitive behavior against the source code.