ChakrDB: A Distributed RocksDB Born in the Cloud, Part 2

By Anoop Jawahar & Sandeep Madanala In part 1 of this series, we discussed the motivation for building a new distributed, cloud-native, highly available, and high-performance key-value store (KVS) based on RocksDB and suitable for scales ranging from dozens of terabytes to multiple petabytes. In this post, we provide an overview of ChakrDB and its …

ChakrDB: A Distributed RocksDB Born in the Cloud, Part 1

By Anoop Jawahar & Sandeep Madanala To go directly to part 2 in this series, please click here. History, Context, and Motivation Through its web-scale, scale-out design, the Nutanix cloud operating system offers comprehensive virtualized storage and compute with high availability (HA), resilience, and fault tolerance, giving you a public cloud experience in your on-prem …