capnproto-rust VS tarpc

The only hurdle I have is that while the documentation is extensive it is a little confusing in places and mainly focuses on C++ and the C++ RPC system which is a little different to the Rust code. There are Rust examples in the official repo which I will try and leverage here.

capnproto-rust is the official Rust implementation.

Hi, you seem to know a bit about Sanakirja!

It stores 4kb blobs, right? Does Pijul first parses the data (copying it to other allocations), or uses the data as is? I mean, there are some libraries like cap'n'proto[0] and rkyv[1] that can directly use the file contents as an in-memory data structure, I was wondering if Pijul did anything like that.

I mean, is this btree page [2] stored exactly like this on disk, and does Pijul exploits that to avoid further copying data?

(I guess there's a trouble with compression there: to decompress you really need to write in another buffer)

Also, is the I/O done with something that prevent userspace copies like mmap or io_uring, or does it eventually calls read() to copy the data to its own buffer?

I want to build something like Sanakirja, but with those features, so I'm wondering if there's any overlap.

[0] https://github.com/capnproto/capnproto-rust

[1] https://github.com/rkyv/rkyv

[2] https://docs.rs/sanakirja-core/latest/sanakirja_core/btree/p...

You can think its better version of tarpc

tarpc is a Rust RPC crate by google (not official)

gRPC (https://github.com/google/tarpc) is the first thought here, but it is bounded to http2 and the client has to initiate the connection, I haven't used stream request before so not sure if it fits my situation.

For generating server and client code from an interface description, you may try tonic for gRPC with protobuf as your interface language, or tarpc if you want to describe the API in Rust.