tellydb

An in-memory key-value database project.

• To make it work by all redis clients, follows RESP2/RESP3
• Fully configurable via .tellyconf
• Persistency
  • Holds all databases inside a file
  • Provides saving database into file using an external thread asynchrously
  • Atomicity on execution of saving process
• Database
  • Provides many data types such as hash table, list, and double
  • Includes key expiry
  • Multiple databases
• Architecture
  • Executes commands in a single thread sequentially
  • Uses multiple threads for handling I/O requests such as reading, and writing
  • Allows pipelining to combine multiple commands from a single client simultaneously
• Permissions
  • Relies independent passwords to authorize clients
  • Includes precise permissions for commands such as database reading, and managing clients

The project is documented as follows:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aloima/tellydb/master/install.sh | sudo bash

• Download the latest release file
• Give permission to make file executable using chmod a+x ./telly
• Start the server using ./telly

• Clone the repository
• Install OpenSSL library and its development headers
• Install jemalloc library and its development headers
• Install gmp library and its development headers
• Install meson and ninja to configure and build the project
• Install gperf to generate perfect hash method
• Configure the build directory using meson setup build
  • Compile the project using meson compile -C build, then start the server using ./build/telly
  • Install to your local machine using sudo meson install -C build, then start the server using telly
  • Run the test suite using meson test -C build --verbose

Pull docker image:

docker pull aloima/tellydb        # for master branch
docker pull aloima/tellydb:1.0.0  # for specific release

Run docker container to start the server:

docker run -d -p 6379:6379 --name telly aloima/tellydb

To get information about cli commands, use ./telly help.

Licensed under BSD-3 Clause Clear License.