The Eclipse zenoh: Zero Overhead Pub/sub, Store/Query and Compute.

Eclipse zenoh /zeno/ unifies data in motion, data in-use, data at rest and computations. It carefully blends traditional pub/sub with geo-distributed storages, queries and computations, while retaining a level of time and space efficiency that is well beyond any of the mainstream stacks.

Check the website zenoh.io for more detailed information.

Install Cargo and Rust. Currently, zenoh requires a nightly version of Rust, type the following to install it after you have followed the previous instructions:

$ rustup default nightly

And then build zenoh with:

$ cargo build --release --all-targets

For convenience, the zenoh router is pre-build and made available in a Docker image: https://hub.docker.com/r/eclipse/zenoh

Thus, run it just doing:

docker pull eclipse/zenoh:latest
docker run --init -p 7447:7447/tcp -p 7447:7447/udp -p 8000:8000/tcp eclipse/zenoh:latest

The ports used by zenoh are the following:

• 7447/tcp : the zenoh protocol via TCP
• 7447/udp : the zenoh scouting protocol using UDP multicast (for clients to automatically discover the router)
• 8000/tcp : the zenoh REST API

All the examples are compiled into the target/release/examples directory. They can all work in peer-to-peer, or interconnected via the zenoh router (target/release/zenohd).

Then, you can test it using the zenoh API in your favorite language:

• Rust using the zenoh crate and the examples in this repo
• Python using zenoh-python

Or with the REST API:

The complete Eclipse zenoh's key/value space is accessible through the REST API, using regular HTTP GET, PUT and DELETE methods. In those examples, we use the curl command line tool.

• Get info of the local zenoh router:

  curl http://localhost:8000/@/router/local
  

• Get the backends of the local router (only memory by default):

  curl 'http://localhost:8000/@/router/local/**/backend/*'
  

• Get the storages of the local router (none by default):

  curl 'http://localhost:8000/@/router/local/**/storage/*'
  

• Add a memory storage on /demo/example/**:

  curl -X PUT -H 'content-type:application/properties' -d 'path_expr=/demo/example/**' http://localhost:8000/@/router/local/plugin/storages/backend/memory/storage/my-storage
  
  

Assuming the memory storage has been added, as described above, you can now:

• Put a key/value into zenoh:

curl -X PUT -d 'Hello World!' http://localhost:8000/demo/example/test

• Retrieve the key/value:

curl http://localhost:8000/demo/example/test

• Remove the key value

curl -X DELETE http://localhost:8000/demo/example/test