Build a Simple Persistent Key-Value Store in Elixir, using Logs - Part 2

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 16:40:00 +0000

Published articles in the series:

Part 1
Part 2 (this article)

In the part 1, we’ve introduced a simple implementation of a kv-store engine, written in Elixir. We developed three modules: an Index, a Writer and a Reader. The Writer writers the values in a log-file keeping the keys in a in-memory Index. Since the state of the index is only kept in memory, once the index process fails, or the whole engine crashes, we are not able to distinguish the values …

Build a Simple Persistent Key-Value Store in Elixir, using Logs - Part 1

Wed, 28 Nov 2018 11:00:00 +0000

The code in this article is heavily inspired from the concepts amazingly explained in the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann.

Disclaimer*, all the code you find in this article, and on the github repo, is written for pure fun and meant just as an experiment.*

kv-store on Poeticoding

Build a Simple Persistent Key-Value Store in Elixir, using Logs - Part 2

Build a Simple Persistent Key-Value Store in Elixir, using Logs - Part 1