forceps is made to be an easy-to-use, thread-safe, performant, and asynchronous disk cache that has easy reading and manipulation of data. It levereges tokio's async fs APIs and fast task schedulers to perform IO operations, and sled as a fast metadata database.

It was originally designed to be used in scalpel, the MD@Home implementation for the Rust language.

Instability Warning

Just as a warning, this crate is still yet to be heavily tested and is still lacking features. It is advisable to use another solution if you have the option!

Features

• Asynchronous APIs
• Fast and reliable reading/writing
• Tuned for large-file databases
• Included cache eviction (LRU/FIFO)
• Easily accessible value metadata
• Optimized for cache HITs
• Easy error handling
• bytes crate support (non-optional)

Planned Features

• Toggleable in-memory LRU cache
• Optional tracking of last-access timestamps
• Built-in cache integrity checks

Documentation

All documentation for this project can be found at docs.rs.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license. Please see LICENSE for more information.