KNV, a Distributed Multi-Key Value Database

Overview

The KNV project aims to be a learning tool for a basic key-value database with two twists:

• A single value may be listed under multiple indexes within a table
• Distributed Database

Documentation

Deployment Requirements

KNV expects to run with the following services:

• Etcd

Roadmap

The following are currently supported:

• gRPC-based multi-key-value store API
• local on-disk storage
• Cluster Membership

Up next are the following features:

• Write re-direction to shard write-leaders
• Kafka-backed storage
• Kafka-enabled storage replication
• Separate read instances
• Self-healing node/shard assignment