This page describes a prioritized list of desired usability features for RAMCloud as well as potential research topics.

Usability

Possible features to improve usability:

• [All] Make 10 gig ethernet work (solarflare ethernet NICs)
• [7] Docs / script to make starting a cluster trivially easy
• [6] Get it to run on Amazon
• [4] Actual packages for distros
• [3] Dashboard / web agent console
• [3] More examples in documentation
• [3] Better tablet management
  
  • recovery
• [2] Competitive benchmarking
• [1] Asynchronous writes
• [1] Richer conditional operations
• [1] Notify clients when value changes
• [0] Multi-tenancy
• [0] Backup facility
• [0] How you buy the cluster you would need
• [0] Infrastructure as a service
• [0] Run on Emulab
• [0] Default DEBUG=no
• [0] Discussion forums
• [0] FAQ
• [0] Indexes

Research

Potential research topics:

• Data model
  • Indexes
  • Transactions
  • Graph/Set
  • Relational
• Multi-tenancy, security
• Benchmarks under load, tail latency
• Scalable, low-latency RPC for the datacenter
• Data placement, consolidation
• Analytics in RAMCloud
• Code uploading
• Scalability, simulator
• Reusable broadcast mechanism