Hello World!

This is the first Alpha release of KnucklesDB, this version is intended for internal testing purpose and for collecting feedback in order to perform patches.

• Features:
  a) SWIM Protocol.
  b) Gossip Protocol.
  c) Eventual Consistency.
  d) Crash-Recovery Abstraction via WAL.
  e) Clock Pagination Algorithm.
  f) Version Vector.
  g) BASE.
• Limitations:
  a) No granted Checkpointing.
  b) No Distributed Snapshot after Recovery.
  c) No Disk Based Data Structures.
  d) All-To-All Pings.
  e) Suitable for Small Clusters.
  f) No Partial Views.
• Future Changes:
  a) Emergent Leader Election.
  b) Proper Network Topology.
  c) TTL-based Failure Detection Algorithm.
  d) Read Repair.
  e) Tombstones.