[the_precipitate]

I've been testing EloqKV against TiKV, and it's much faster, specially for in-memory reads. I was seeking an alternative solution to replace KVRocks, which is essentially just a single node RocksDB wraped with a Redis API, EloqKV easily outperforms it by a large margin. Moreover, EloqKV can scale to multiple nodes.

I personally think that using the Redis API as a real database interface is quite useful. It saves me from dealing with the complexity of SQL, and it’s very natural to map my needs into Redis data structures. Coming from a programming background rather than a traditional DB background, I find imperative programming far more intuitive than declarative SQL, which I cannot "compile in my head" as easily.

Overall, kudos to the team for building such a solid solution and making it open source under a proper GPL license, which is becoming rare for new databases these days.