Writing a key-value store

Question

I am looking to write a Key/value store (probably in python) mostly just for experience, and because it\'s something I think that is a very useful product. I have a couple of qu

Answer 1

Amazon released a document about Dynamo - a highly available key-value storage system. It mostly deals with the scaling issues (how to create a key/value store that runs on a large number of machines), but it also deals with some basics, and generally worth to read.