1 = \Metropolis: a key-value store for Rack
3 \Metropolis is a Rack application used to store key value pairs. It
4 seeks to emulate the TokyoTyrant HTTP interface, but allows access to
5 multiple databases through a single TCP port. It hashes keys to split
6 keys between different on-disk databases to work around scalability
7 limitations of the kernel, hardware and filesystem.
11 * Currently supports the {TDB}[http://bogomips.org/ruby-tdb/] database
12 along with the TokyoCabinet hash database format, other database
13 formats will be supported along with KyotoCabinet, as well as other
16 * Compatible with all Rack-compatible servers
20 You can get the latest source via git from the following locations:
22 git://git.bogomips.org/metropolis.git
23 git://repo.or.cz/metropolis.git (mirror)
25 You may browse the code from the web and download the latest snapshot
28 * http://git.bogomips.org/cgit/metropolis.git (cgit)
29 * http://repo.or.cz/w/metropolis.git (gitweb)
31 Inline patches (from "git format-patch") to the mailing list are
32 preferred because they allow code review and comments in the reply to
35 We will adhere to mostly the same conventions for patch submissions as
36 git itself. See the Documentation/SubmittingPatches document
37 distributed with git on on patch submission guidelines to follow. Just
38 don't email the git mailing list or maintainer with \Metropolis patches.
42 All feedback (bug reports, user/development discussion, patches, pull
43 requests) go to the mailing list: mailto:metropolis@librelist.org
45 Mailing list archives in mbox format may be downloaded here:
47 http://metropolis.bogomips.org/archives/