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