🥝 Kiwi

Kiwi is a Key-Value storage server, written from scratch in Go as a personal pet project ands exercise to learn the Go programming language.

It aims to be as an alternative for Redis, and to support at least a subset of the commands provided by Redis, for familarity reasons. As added features, support for strong namespacing would be a nice to have addition.

PoC milestones

• Supported Commands:
  • PING: returns PONG
  • GET <key>: retrieves the string value of a key
  • SET <key> <value>: sets the string value of a key
  • DEL <key>: deletes a key
  • KEYS: returns list of all available keys
• Features
  • Invalidation
    • TTL
  • Namespacing
  • Distributed Locks
  • Simple Auth
    • Namespacing ACL
• Networking:
  • Multi-protocol support
    • Connection Handshake and protocol negotiation
    • Supported Protocols
      • KiwiV0: rudimentary string marshalling for testing purposes
      • KiwiV1: Custom binary serialization or Protobuf
      • Redis RESPv3-compatible protocol

Name Origin

🥝 In Portuguese, Kiwi reads as "Quivi". Phonetically, it is pronounced as "Key-V", which is a play-on-words as short for Key-Value.