Mace

Mace is a high-performance, embedded key-value storage engine written in Rust, combining the predictable read performance of B+ Trees with the write throughput of LSM Trees.

Key Features

Hybrid Performance: B+ Tree-like read speeds with LSM-Tree-like write throughput.
Concurrent MVCC: Non-blocking concurrent reads and writes with snapshot isolation.
ACID Transactions: Crash-safe commit, abort, and recovery.
Flash-Optimized: Log-structured design tailored for SSD/NVMe endurance.
Large Value Separation: Large values live outside the index, cutting maintenance I/O.
Optional Zstd Compression: Per-bucket enable_compression (default: false).
Data Integrity: CRC checksums on persisted records, verified across restarts and crashes.
Flow Control: Optional foreground write backpressure to bound memory growth.
Cross-Platform: Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and macOS.

Quick Start

The following example demonstrates basic transaction management and data retrieval:

use mace::{BucketOptions, Mace, OpCode, Options};

fn main() -> Result<(), OpCode> {
    // 1. Initialize the storage
    let opts = Options::new("./data_dir");
    let db = Mace::new(opts.validate().unwrap())?;
    let bkt = db.new_bucket("tmp", BucketOptions::default())?;

    // 2. Perform a write transaction
    let txn = bkt.begin()?;
    txn.put("moha", "+1s")?;
    txn.commit()?;

    // 3. Read data using a consistent view
    let view = bkt.view()?;
    let value = view.get("moha")?;
    println!("moha => {:?}", std::str::from_utf8(value.slice()));

    // 4. Remove data
    let txn = bkt.begin()?;
    txn.del("moha")?;
    txn.commit()?;

    Ok(())
}

Detailed usage can be found in examples/demo.rs.

Benchmarks

Latest results: https://o2c.fun/benchmark.html

Methodology and comparison with other engines: kv_bench.

Validation

Correctness/crash matrix: ./scripts/prod_test.sh all 8
Script details: scripts/README.md

Stateful Fuzzing

Mace uses cargo-fuzz for stateful lifecycle fuzzing. The target is not decoder robustness against random bytes, but whether Mace's own write, checkpoint, GC, reopen, and bucket-lifecycle paths can produce state that later becomes unreadable, invisible, or inconsistent:

lagging snapshot views must not lose versions that should still be visible
checkpoint and reopen must not make committed state disappear or change visibility
publish, GC, and bucket churn must not produce broken metadata or self-inconsistent durable state

Targets and replay commands are in fuzz/README.md.

Design Notes

Architecture and crash-safety notes are in docs/design.md.

Status

Storage format and public APIs are essentially stable and ready for production evaluation. Breaking format changes will ship with a migration path rather than silently.

Discussion

Use GitHub Discussions for questions and design talk, or open an issue for bugs and feature requests.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

mace-kv 0.1.1