mykv

Authors: Felipe Ripoll. (ferigis@gmail.com).

Distributed Key/Value store.

Note: mykv is still under development. Currently the number of nodes must be immovable. There are more things to add like handoff, distributed tests, consistent hashing, adding quorums...

About

Mykv is a distributed key/value store written in Erlang/OTP. It uses Mnesia as a backend. This app was built for learning purposes, this is not suitable for use in production applications.

Build

Mykv uses Rebar3.

$ git clone https://github.com/ferigis/mykv.git
$ cd mykv
$ make compile

Example

We want to create a 2 nodes cluster. First we need to decide which number of Replicas we want. We are going to choose R=2 (full consistency!). To acomplish that we must change to 2 the replicas value from config/mykv.config file. Then start two Erlang consoles:

$ erl -name node1@127.0.0.1 -pa _build/default/lib/mykv/ebin/ -config config/mykv.config

and

$ erl -name node2@127.0.0.1 -pa _build/default/lib/mykv/ebin/ -config config/mykv.config

Then start mykv in both nodes:

application:start(mykv).
ok

Now we create the cluster calling the method mykv:join(Node) from node1 to node2 (or viceversa). If we want to add a new node to the cluster we have to call that join method from the new node to one in the cluster.

(node1@127.0.0.1)2> mykv:join('node2@127.0.0.1').
ok

We can check the nodes in the cluster in both nodes:

(node2@127.0.0.1)2> mykv:get_cluster_nodes().
['node2@127.0.0.1','node1@127.0.0.1']

Now we have the cluster created!! but... what if we have many nodes? do we have to repeat this N times?? well, actually we can call an aux method. Lets do it with 5 nodes and 3 Replicas (remember change replicas on config/mykv.conf). First open 5 Erlang consoles as we did before (from node1@127.0.0.1 to node5@127.0.0.1). After that call the setup_cluster method on node1:

(node1@127.0.0.1)2> mykv:setup_cluster(['node2@127.0.0.1','node3@127.0.0.1','node4@127.0.0.1','node5@127.0.0.1']).
ok

Checking the nodes in node3(for example):

(node3@127.0.0.1)1> mykv:get_cluster_nodes().
['node1@127.0.0.1','node2@127.0.0.1','node3@127.0.0.1',
 'node4@127.0.0.1','node5@127.0.0.1']

Much easy on that way, right? Now we are going to add some data. Lets pick one node, node2 for example

(node2@127.0.0.1)6> mykv:set(bucket1, key1, value1).
Key key1 is stored on Nodes ['node4@127.0.0.1','node5@127.0.0.1',
                          'node1@127.0.0.1']
ok

Mykv says the key1 from bucket1 has been stored on node4, node5 and node1. Lets try to get the data on node2 and on node4.

(node2@127.0.0.1)7> mykv:get_locally(bucket1, key1).
bucket_not_found


(node4@127.0.0.1)1> mykv:get_locally(bucket1, key1).
{mykv_record,key1,value1}

That is correct. So, how can we get the key1 value on node2? just calling the get mehod:

(node2@127.0.0.1)8> mykv:get(bucket1, key1).        
{mykv_record,key1,value1}

Here it is the correct value!.

Running Tests

$ make test