OPIC is a new approach to serialize general data structures, object types, and primitive types. It's a new data stack from the ground up -- from object oriented model, generics, to memory management. With everything redesigned for scalability, we visioned a new distributed computing ecosystem for the 21st century.
Our key to success is to extend the memory oriented programming model to other tier of storages: disk, SSD, network, or even tape. Accessing data should not be limited by memory address on single machine; instead, all data types should be serializable so that it can be shared across network or save for future use. Having serialzability as the core design brings many benefits for free:
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Scalability. When all the data types are serializable, the application can easily scale up with multiple strategies, including sharing data between nodes, off load certain data for later use, or build caches from the same serialization abstraction.
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Data persistence. Think of databases' durability. Since all the data types are serializable, you can save the snapshot of the entire program state whenever you want. This can make database applications way easier to build, and also make debugging easier.
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Generality for data processing applications. All the data processing systems, including RDBMS, map reduce, search engines, even RPC involves are some sort of special case of serialization. Why duplicates the effort for each of those applications instead of having one powerful and optimized framework?
Most of the functionalities will be implemented in C. Our end goal is to embed this framework into other higher level languages like python, java, nodejs for wider adoption.
To begin with, please check out our documentation page.
Copyright (c) 2016 Felix Chern
OPIC is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)
any later version.
OPIC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for
more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with OPIC. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
In future we may also form a commercial license and support.
Please follow the GNU Coding Standards. On the moment of this writing we still have some portion of the code hasn't yet convert to GNU formatting styles, but this should be fixed in near future.
