NimbusStore is a Go-based project designed to implement a custom key-value store. This project aims to explore and demonstrate fundamental as well as advanced distributed systems concepts through the lens of a practical, real-world application. Inspired by principles from the Raft consensus algorithm and other distributed systems techniques, NimbusStore includes several key features:
- Basic CRUD Operations: Supports Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations for efficient data storage and retrieval.
- Replication: Implements data replication across multiple nodes to ensure high availability and fault tolerance, a crucial aspect for distributed systems.
- Consensus Algorithm (Inspired by Raft): Utilizes concepts inspired by the Raft consensus algorithm to manage a replicated log, ensuring strong consistency and reliability in a cluster environment.
- Sharding: Incorporates sharding techniques to effectively distribute data across multiple nodes, enhancing scalability and load balancing.
- Fault Tolerance: Designed to handle node failures gracefully, NimbusStore maintains data integrity and availability, showcasing robust fault tolerance capabilities.
- Scalability: Engineered to scale horizontally, facilitating the addition of more nodes to the system seamlessly without significant downtime or performance degradation.
- Simple Client API: Offers a straightforward and user-friendly API for clients, abstracting the complexities of the underlying distributed system operations.
NimbusStore serves as both a robust storage solution and a learning project that encapsulates the challenges and solutions inherent in the design of distributed systems.