The year 2023 is a small milestone for the community in open source, and it is also a new starting point. Kvrocks successfully graduated from the incubator to become an Apache top-level project in June, which is a great affirmation for the community's health and sustainability. At the same time, there are also some exciting progress in the project and community.
Before we start, we would like to thanks all the contributors and users who have been supporting Apache Kvrocks. We can't make it without you!
Project Retrospective
We collected a lot of feedback from users and developers in the discussion: 2023 Planning(Want your feedback), some of them have been resolved in 2023, and some of them are still in the plan list.
The key progresses in 2023:
- JSON data structure
- BloomFilter data structure
- Watch/Unwatch command
- Lua Functions
- Replication with TLS
- Allow to enable 64 bit expiration time (precision is in milliseconds instead of seconds), and the length of List/Hash/Set/ZSET/Stream can be also extended from 32 to 64 bits.
- Allow to use
LOAD RDBcommand to load Redis RDB file - Allow to dynamically adjust the number of Worker threads
- Enable Namespace replication
- Support RESTORE command
What we are still working on:
- RESP3 protocol, more information can be found in Tracking issue: Support RESP3 in Kvrocks
- Kvrocks in Kubernetes, kvrocks-operator is ready to test now, but still need more work to make it production-ready
- Controller to manage cluster, the API part of kvrocks-controller is finished, but we belive it's not enough of users before UI part is ready
What still in the backlog:
- Allow to use the Raft protocol for replication
- HyperLogLog
- RedisGraph, no plan to support since it's deprecated by the Redis community
- Semi-sync replication
- Client-side caching
Community
In the past year, in addition to operating based on the principle of "Community over Code" of the Apache Foundation, the community maintenance also adheres to the attitude of openness, transparency, openness, inclusiveness, freedom and equality towards everyone.
In 2023, the community has many things worth sharing:
- Successfully graduated from the incubator to become an Apache top-level project in June
- Released a total of
6versions from 2.3.0 - 2.7.0 - Voted for
5new Committers, they are: xiaobiaozhao / mwish / Aleks Lozovyuk / binbin / yangshixi - The total number of contributors exceeded
100+, which increased by41compared to 2022 - Merged PR total number 500+
- In terms of community communication groups, the number of WeChat groups is
450+, and the number of Slack is250+
New Logo
The number of users in the community has increased by 7 organizations, including Opera / iFlytek / SHOPLAZZA / Netease Hangzhou Research Institute / ZTO Express / Coin Index and AHOY.
Thanks to the above users for their use and active feedback, and welcome more users to leave your usage scenarios in GitHub Issue: Who is using Kvrocks?
2024 Planning
In the past few years, the annual plan of Kvrocks has also maintained the principle of openness and transparency, and I hope to hear the voices of users and developers. Therefore, the community is open to collect needs and feedback from everyone.
Please don't hesitate to leave comments in 2024 Planning(Want your feedback) if you have any ideas or suggestions.