A concurrency-oriented K/V database
At the time of writing, http://nosql-database.org featured 150 databases. No lack of options! However, the Event Sourcing category barely has any entries. Genomu, being at the intersection of this and Key Value / Tuple store categories, increases the number of options available in that niche.
In all seriousness, the motivation to create this new database was to:
- address the complexity of concurrent updates and conflicts
- simplify creation of "real-time web" applications
- enable highly available write operations in presence of failures
In order to build and fire up Genomu, you'll need a couple of things:
- Erlang R16B: http://erlang.org/
- Elixir (latest master branch): https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir
- avahi daemon (only if you're on Linux, don't worry about it on OS X) and avahi DNS-SD compatibility library (libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev)
To build, simply run make. Hopefully, this will end successfully and you
can fire up a test cluster using make start. That will start three
nodes (their configs can be found in the ./test directory). Make sure to
check out its web console at http://localhost:9119, you'll see something like
this:
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