Leverage tikv as KV store

[huiwenhan]

Why not leverage TIkv as the KV store to accelerate the bonsainDB development ? https://github.com/tikv/tikv

[daxpedda]

I don't believe TiKV aligns with BonsaiDBs goals. Please correct me if I'm wrong with any of my assumptions here, I never used TiKV and only have a very high-level undderstanding of it:

• Not a library and can't be or isn't intended to be used as such.
• Heavily depends on C++ codebases.
• Massive list of dependencies that can't be toggled by crate features.

These are just some fundamentals that I believe don't align.

[ecton]

Additionally, TiKV requires a lot more than BonsaiDb. The biggest issue to me, aside from the ones that Daxpedda raised, is that there is no way to use TiKV in a non-networked mode or single-server, which is a fundamental feature that BonsaiDb supports.

BonsaiDb's clustering and replication are still to-be-developed. If you need a clustered key-value storage or key-value storage that is considered stable, use TiKV today. If you're looking for the best developer experience for developing and deploying a database that will eventually support clustering as well, BonsaiDb is a good option.

If you're looking for specific features that TiKV has that BonasiDb currently doesn't, please open up issues with specific feature requests.