RAMCloud 0.2

• Tables

  Enough of this is done to have a sane interface for now. Don't waste much time on it, since table management is a future design issue. -Diego

• Variable sized objects
• Backup
• Indexes
• Reliable networking
• 1 copy
• Key -> Obj lookup

Probably Punted

• Variable sized tables
• Recovery
• Multiple masters
• Cleaning

Design Issues

• Object storage format

  struct chunk_header {
      uint64_t checksum;
      uint64_t magic;
      uint64_t key;
      struct chunk_entry entries[0];
  };
  struct chunk_entry {
      uint64_t length;
      uint64_t index_id;
      char data[0];
  };
  

• Indexes
• Key -> Object Lookup
• Reliable networking