A distributed go-datastore implementation using Merkle-CRDTs.

go-ds-crdt is a key-value store implementation using Merkle CRDTs, as described in the paper by Héctor Sanjuán, Samuli Pöyhtäri and Pedro Teixeira. It satisfies the Datastore and Batching interfaces from go-datastore.

Internally it uses a delta-CRDT Add-Wins Observed-Removed set. The current value for a key is the one with highest priority. Priorities are defined as the height of the Merkle-CRDT node in which the key was introduced.

go-ds-crdt needs:

• A user-provided, thread-safe, go-datastore implementation to be used as permanent storage. We recommend using the Badger implementation.
• A user-defined Broadcaster component to broadcast and receive updates from a set of replicas. If your application uses libp2p, you can use libp2p PubSub and the provided PubsubBroadcaster.
• A user-defined DAGSyncer component to publish and retrieve Merkle DAGs to the network. For example, you can use IPFS-Lite which casually satisfies this interface.

The permanent storage layout is optimized for KV stores with fast indexes and key-prefix support.

See https://godoc.org/github.com/ipfs/go-ds-crdt for more information.

This project is captained by @hsanjuan.

This library is dual-licensed under Apache 2.0 and MIT terms.

Copyright 2019. Protocol Labs, Inc.