Hibari is a strongly consistent, highly available, distributed, key-value

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store. (

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on July 27, 2010. Hibari, a Japanese name meaning "Cloud Bird", can be used in

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with services—such as

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—requiring the daily storage of potentially

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s or

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s of new data.

Distinctive features

Hibari uses chain replication for strong consistency, high-availability, and durability. Unlike many other

variants, Hibari support micro-transaction, which is ACID transaction within a certain range of keys. Hibari has excellent performance especially for read and large value (around 200 KB) operations.

Interfaces

Hibari supports APIs such as

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and Universal Binary Protocol; plans have been announced for support of

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; in addition to Erlang, the language it was developed in. Hibari supports

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s such as

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, C,

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, and

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References

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