Kevo

Kevo is a purpose-built key-value store, specifically designed to serve as a state-backend for transactional dataflow systems.

It supports incremental (efficient) snapshots, rollbacks, and it offers a selection of three backend engines:

1. LSMTree with size-tiered compaction, like Apache's Cassandra.
2. HybridLog, based on Microsoft's FASTER.
3. AppendLog, similar to Riak's Bitcask.

It was developed as part of this thesis.

Requirements

See setup.py.

Usage

To install run pip install .

To try the CLI: kevo

Simple example with LSMTree and PathRemote:

from kevo import LSMTree, PathRemote

remote = PathRemote('/tmp/my-snapshot-store')

db = LSMTree(remote=remote)
# by default the db creates the directory "./data" to store the data and indices
db[b'a'] = b'1'
db[b'b'] = b'2'
# since we're using a Remote, we can create a snapshot to save the state we
# have so far (the key-value pairs) in another directory (which can be mounted)
# elsewhere
db.snapshot(id=0)

db[b'a'] = b'3'
db[b'b'] = b'4'
db.snapshot(id=1)

db.close()

# you can remove the local directory "./data" here, the data will be restored
# via the PathRemote we're using

db = LSMTree(remote=remote)
print(db[b'a'])  # b'3'
print(db[b'b'])  # b'4'

db.restore(version=0)
print(db[b'a'])  # b'1'
print(db[b'b'])  # b'2'

db.close()

Tests

To run all tests: python -m unittest discover -s tests

Documentation

Full documentation is not available yet.