Building a Distributed Transactional Key-Value Store with Rust

Added:

Database Goals
Storage Engine
Raft Replication
Horizontal Scaling
Transaction Handling
Communication Layer
Testing & Monitoring
Unified Architecture
Consistency Solutions
Ecosystem & APIs

Database Goals

0:04
Playing Section
  • 1

    Building a distributed transactional key-value database to ensure data consistency, scalability, and high performance.

  • 2

    Adopting a hierarchical approach to tackle challenges from storage to replication for a robust system foundation.

Proficiency in Rust systems programming, including ownership, lifetimes, and asynchronous runtime concepts like Tokio.
Fundamental concepts of distributed systems, such as replication, the CAP theorem, and network partitioning.
Core mechanics of the Raft consensus algorithm, specifically leader election and log replication.
Basic knowledge of database storage engines, particularly Log-Structured Merge-tree (LSM-tree) architectures like RocksDB.
Database transaction theory, including ACID properties and concurrency control mechanisms such as Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC).
Implementing Multi-Raft consensus and horizontal database sharding to scale the key-value store across multiple nodes.
Designing cross-shard distributed transactions using protocols like Two-Phase Commit (2PC) or the Percolator model.
Testing and verifying distributed system correctness and fault tolerance using partition testing frameworks like Jepsen.
Performance tuning and low-level optimization of Rust and RocksDB configurations (e.g., compaction strategies and block cache tuning).
Studying production-grade open-source implementations with similar architectures, such as TiKV or CockroachDB.
1.2K views11likes23:38@fosdemtalksOriginal Release: 2018-02-06

TiKV is a distributed transactional key-value database built with Rust that uses Raft consensus algorithm for data replication and consistency, RocksDB as the storage engine, and gRPC for inter-service communication, enabling horizontal scalability through sharding and supporting ACID-compliant transactions across distributed nodes.