unix sockets connection possible?

[osevan]

It is possible to connect over unix sockets?

[ohsayan]

It is possible to connect over unix sockets?

This is very much possible, but Skytable aims to be platform-independent wherever possible, so we have chosen to not provide support for Unix sockets at this point in time. However, if there's an important requirement (and many folks need it), then we'll work on it.

One more important thing to note here is that Unix sockets are host specific (and the only way to expose it is by connecting the domain socket to a TCP socket) and we aim to build more of a "client-server" database than specifically focusing on IPC.

[osevan]

You could do possibility to listening on unix sockets in your todolist.

Because in every application - even nginx - unix sockets are possible, and in 99% always faster than stream and datagram sockets.

Thanks and

Best regards

[ohsayan]

Unix sockets will obviously be faster because you are using them on the same machine (and no routing/checks/.... overhead). I think we'll raise this with the community soon and see if we can add it to the roadmap (should be a fairly simple addition). Thanks for taking the time to share this :)

[osevan]

When you make research don't forget liburing and aio for rust.

And this is important too

https://docs.rs/nix/0.10.0/nix/sys/aio/index.html

Its ultra nice implemented in Linux kernel

https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/iou/