Show HN: MainMemory – Wannabe Main Memory Database and More(github.com)

Show HN: MainMemory – Wannabe Main Memory Database and More

https://github.com/ademakov/MainMemory

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i'm a bit confused about what this software is, at first form the description it seem a in memory database like redis or sqlite (with :memory ), but reading from the readme it seem more a framework for building server.

Can someone explain?

avdicius9 anni fa

At first I wanted to make an in-memory database. But I disliked libevent, libev and everything else I saw when I started it. Perhaps I would be more or less happy with libuv, but I was not aware of it back then. By the way redis also provides its own event handling machinery. I guess Salvatore did not like libevent too. But redis is single-threaded while my idea was to heavily rely on multi-threading and fibers (M:N threading model). Quite unexpectedly inventing a multi-threaded event handling framework with an added complexity of fibers took enormous time from me. Anyway now I have a cool framework for multi-threaded servers.

As for in-memory database functionality it only provides memcached compatible interface. As I'm done with the server framework stuff so I am going to add more features. Like persistance, basic redis protocol support, etc.

hexmiles9 anni fa

ok, thanks for the explanation, it sound cool but you may want to update your readme! :)