CiprianDorinCraciun/Notes/Ideas/LightweightStoreProtocol

Lightweight Store Protocol

• generic store access protocol framework;
• guidelines:
  • lightweight interface (the lowest denominator);
  • binary encoding;
  • transactional / non-transactional support;
  • opaque data-types (values are treated as binary blocks of data);
• store interfaces:
  • unordered key-value associations (like BerkeleyDB Hash databases);
  • ordered key-value associations (like BerkeleyDB BTree databases);
  • queues;
  • log-structured record stores (inspired from log-structured file systems);
  • random access block-structured stores (like Linux block-devices);
  • unstructured streams (could be used for backups);
  • hierarchical node stores (one node has a key, a value, and multiple children) (used to emulate files-system trees);
  • key-column stores;