> why someone would start something in a memory unsafe language these days
You might like what we (Splitgraph) are building with Seafowl [0], a new database which is written in Rust and based on Datafusion and delta-rs [1]. It's optimized for running at the edge and responding to queries via HTTP with cache-friendly semantics.
[1] https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/seafowl-delta-storage-layer