rust-rocksdb VS Tide

Final touches for lila-openingexplorer, a new chess opening database for lichess.org. Uses axum and rocksdb.

The most control you can probably get is from embeddable kv store, like https://github.com/spacejam/sled or https://github.com/rust-rocksdb/rust-rocksdb . Then you can encode entity version as a key.

I just released portal a full-text search web service that is a competitor for ElasticSearch and MeiliSearch written in Rust. It is simple, blazing fast, and under 500 LOC! Portal supports 87 natural languages, JWTs, SSL, and JSON clients. It is built on Sonic, Broker, Tide, and RocksDB.

Rust has several, production ready, REST API frame works.

Rust allows me to mainly only run the application to confirm things work from a business perspective.

For people starting out building stuff in rust - understand that there is a distinction of async code and libraries and can lead to confusing compiler errors if you don't realize there is a distinction. It's simple in hindsight but did cause me to waste hours barking up the wrong trees at first. Other wise just learn about `match` and Result/Option types asap, they're fundamental.

https://github.com/http-rs/tide tide is great to create an http server / routes

https://github.com/djc/askama I use this to template out HTML and it checks all my boxes, dynamic data, passing in functions, control flow.

https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx sql interface for a variety of backend, async safe.

https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest http client to make requests

Rust is amazing, don't let the initial few speed bumps discourage you - building real things with rust is no more challenging today than any other modern language stack.

https://crates.io/crates/salvo - 581k all time and peak daily of ~2750 in last few months https://crates.io/crates/rocket - 2.68mil all-time / ~6200 daily https://crates.io/crates/actix-web - 9.8mil all-time / ~21k daily https://crates.io/crates/axum - 8.8mil all-time / 64k daily https://crates.io/crates/warp - 7.9mil all-time and 19k daily https://crates.io/crates/tide - 886k all-time / 2250 daily

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I'm developing the backend of https://www.cozydate.com/ in Rust. Async Rust is not productive yet, so I tried rouille http server which lets me write non-async request handlers. Unfortunately, it uses an unbounded thread pool and falls down under load https://github.com/tiny-http/tiny-http/issues/221 . Then I tried Tide and a threadpool to call my non-async API handlers. This worked, but was really ugly, and I had issues with uploads after deploying to Heroku https://github.com/http-rs/tide/issues/878 .

Because you suggested it might be small I’d suggest tide. it is the flask/express/sinatra of rust: it handles routing, dealing with http parsing, and building http responses, and thats pretty much it. I havent done a thorough comparison, but my guess is its dependency footprint is a bit smaller (comparatively to other frameworks), which is nice.

I enjoy the API of tide, but development seems to have slowed down a bit compared to other frameworks https://github.com/http-rs/tide/commits/main

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