Future direction? about rust-kv HOT 5 CLOSED

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Hey @rnewman, sorry for the slow reply.

I have just recently started developing this library to serve the needs of another group of projects -- I wouldn't call it stable but I am moving slowly and trying to avoid pulling in a huge amount of dependencies right away.

Support for integer keys, and serde integration are two things I'm considering in terms of next steps. I am not interested in making any decisions regarding serialization formats and have been looking at implementing key constraints at the Database/Bucket level rather than at the Store level, though that would still allow for some type-sloppiness. As I said above, this is used by a group of projects all with different needs storage-wise, some of them use different databases for different types of data. Your concept of a manger is very nice and I hadn't considered implementing something like that for kv. Perhaps I could port the downstream applications to use different stores for different key types instead.

Let me know what you had in mind in terms of working together, I am definitely open to combining efforts. I was planning on implementing a few of the things I mentioned above this week. Maybe at that point the projects will be slightly more similar any easier to merge?

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I hope it's okay that I've ported your manager code, see manager.rs

I've also added some of the features mentioned above, but am still working on cleaning things up a bit.

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I hope it's okay that I've ported your manager code, see manager.rs

Sure! So long as the licenses are compatible, that's totally fine.

Let me know what you had in mind in terms of working together, I am definitely open to combining efforts. I was planning on implementing a few of the things I mentioned above this week. Maybe at that point the projects will be slightly more similar any easier to merge?

Mozilla is likely to continue investing in this area, and rkv is the first step I took on that path. I'm not sure yet which approach to combining efforts makes most sense as we scale up the number of engineers working on it, and start to tackle things like idiomatic Android and iOS integration, but it does seem like there's overlap!

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Ah I didn't quite realize this is a semi-official Mozilla project! I will keep up with developments on rkv and do my best to contribute. Feel free to let me know once rkv is ramping up and I am happy to get more involved if you need some additional help.

If it makes most sense to pour all efforts into rkv then I can get on board with that, but for now I will continue to develop kv.

Let's definitely not close the door on combining efforts, but perhaps we should wait for both kv and rkv to be developed further, since there is no real consequence to having both at the moment (other than some slight code duplication).

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