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This research presents the design and initial implementation of a database engine using an Intel Xeon Phi co-processor. The many integrated cores (MIC) of the Xeon Phi make this hardware accelerator a natural computing platform for an in-memory database engine or server. The database tables reside in the memory space of the MIC thus supporting fast in-memory database applications. This achieved by developing a coalescing parallel memory manager to allocate parallel variables in the same manner that fields are created in a table using a SQL CREATE TABLE command. The SQL interface was created using a database driver toolkit that provides an interface to the Xeon Phi server and client application. Once the basic framework was established, the algorithms for SQL select, insert, update, delete, and join were created to manipulate database information in the memory of the Xeon Phi.