January, 2018 | Metrink Blog

Building a Log Store in Rust – Part 4

25 Jan

Well that didn’t take long… I switched everything over to Message Pack from Message Pack for the indices, and JSON for the actual logs as described in the last post. It was just too easy to use the from_slice and … Read More »

Building a Log Store in Rust – Part 3

21 Jan

I think I finally have the on-disk format/files working; though I’m sure I’ll change them! It’s currently using 2 different serializers (though both through the amazing serde package): JSON and MessagePack. The log file writes the JSON logs directly to … Read More »

Building a Log Store in Rust – Part 2

16 Jan

Rust Doesn’t Have Inheritance, Or Does It? Coming from Java/C++/Python, I’m used to using inheritance when I want to take a piece of functionality and extend it. Rust doesn’t have inheritance, so I was thrown initially on how I’d go … Read More »

Building a Log Store in Rust – Part 1

12 Jan

I’ve decided to embark on trying to build a log storage database in Rust. Why a log database? Because Elasticsearch isn’t really up for the task. There is a lot of stuff in Elasticsearch that just doesn’t need to be there … Read More »