Without a charter, the database will be built in random directions. We need to define a charter that keeps us aligned. Every feature we build should align with the charter.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
RESP encoding and decoding need to be tested with complex types and there is no one good way to equate two objects. WE need a way to go it.

Describe the solution you'd like
go-cmp library can be used as a reference.

Describe the bug
RESP handler often breaks, need to fix it.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
DO THIS-

(printf '+PING\r\n+PING\r\n';) | nc localhost 7379
(printf '+PING\r\n+PING\r\n';) | nc localhost 7379
(printf '+OING\r\n+PING\r\n';) | nc localhost 7379

Expected behavior
This should log "Possible security attack" on the server side and disconnect the client issuing the command.

Additional context
Try Fuzzers to break the current RESP implementation to explore more steps to reproduce the larger issue with RESP handler.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
No

Describe the solution you'd like
go run main.go works in mac or make run with something behind docker like functionality

Describe alternatives you've considered
Alternative was buying a linux laptop

Additional context
None

Something like below

Makefile

OS := $(if $(GOOS),$(GOOS),$(shell go env GOOS))
ARCH := $(if $(GOARCH),$(GOARCH),$(shell go env GOARCH))
BUILD_IMAGE ?= golang:1.19.2-buster

run: 
	docker run                                                  \
	    -i                                                      \
	    --rm                                                    \
	    -u $$(id -u):$$(id -g)                                  \
	    -v $$(pwd):/src                                         \
	    -w /src                                                 \
	    -v $$(pwd)/.go/bin/$(OS)_$(ARCH):/go/bin                \
	    -v $$(pwd)/.go/bin/$(OS)_$(ARCH):/go/bin/$(OS)_$(ARCH)  \
	    -v $$(pwd)/.go/cache:/.cache                            \
	    -v $$(pwd)/.go/pkg:/go/pkg                              \
	    $(BUILD_IMAGE)                                          \
	    /bin/sh -c "                                            \
	        ARCH=$(ARCH)                                        \
	        OS=$(OS)                                            \
	        go run main.go                                      \
	    "

or may be built it for mac and give some image for mac.

Shell

make run

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Since DiceDB is not TELNET compatible, in order to send the command, one has to serialize the commands as per RESP spec and then send it over the wire. Thus, sending the commands for mass insertion or deletion becomes a high labor task for a mere performance or diagnostics test. A workaround is to use any redis-compatible language driver and perform the operation. However, the latter solution is external to DB and introduces the side effects and non-conforming delays even on loopback interface. Another problem is related to the monitoring since we are already based on event loops i.e. a kernel space operation, hence attaching debug probes/breakpoints in code that is in userspace doesn't really help to know the behavior of DB with respect to various memory footprints such as network, spikes during insertions, etc.

Describe the solution you'd like
For the first problem. the solution I propose is to introduce a DEBUG POPULATE command, which doesn't have to cross any network boundaries to generate keys for any diagnostics test.

This should work as follows-

DEBUG POPULATE <number-of-keys-to-generate> <key-size-in-bytes>

for instance, the below command should generate 3 million keys with 2kb string or integer keys

DEBUG POPULATE 3000000 2000

For the second problem, I propose INFO command.
Below should provide info on all buffers related to Networking

INFO network

The same way, below should provide statistics on keys, how many are dirty, expired, and peak memory, committed (AOF), etc.

INFO store

Describe alternatives you've considered
For key generations - Redis-compatible drivers.
For INFO - debug probes and profilers

Additional context
Why all this hard work, can't we use alternatives? Because printf() is the best debugger on the planet!!

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Bloom filters are essential to check for existence, and having support for that is essential for real-world usecases.

Describe the solution you'd like
Add commands BINIT, BADD, and BEXIST to initialize, add, and check existence within the bloom filter. BINIT can take in arguments around tolerance and initial allocation.

Some points to consider

• the size of the bloom filter
• seamless resize

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=bloom+filter&btnG=

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently, the buffer we use to take input can hold only 512 bytes. This prevents us from firing query that is longer than that. This is also the limitation while reading the response on the client side.

Describe the solution you'd like
Re-write the socket code to support large input bytes sent from the client and encode them into native objects.

If the input is partial wait until the complete input is received.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
PRs from different devs would be in different format which brings non-uniformity across the project.

Describe the solution you'd like
Create a PR template which will help aligning uniformity across PRs and thus for the project as of whole

Additional context
Refs: https://docs.github.com/en/communities/using-templates-to-encourage-useful-issues-and-pull-requests/creating-a-pull-request-template-for-your-repository

( we can persists data in Disk/SDD). and PUT key-value in replicas parallelly ( by go routine)

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Dice DB does not run on OSX.

Describe the solution you'd like
Dice DB currently does not run on OSX because it does not support EPOLL, hence we need to add support for KQueue and do a conditional build.

Describe the bug
Wrong/un-implemented commands when fired returns "PONG".
This can create confusion on the behaviour altogether

To Reproduce

1. run some
2. enter gibberish as a command

Expected behavior
Return a correct response stating either command not implemented or wrong command fired.

@arpitbbhayani to share the correct response format.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
What if I want to find MAX/SUM/%ile of filtered keys/values? Doing this today is a big pain as it requires a massive compute power.

Given that Dice DB is built on Golang and it has super-efficient Goroutines, what it we build capability of doing in-memory ETL through simple Piped Commands?

Describe the solution you'd like
Build an ability to represent and accept ETL command execute them on multiple cores on mutually exclusive subset of data and quickly compute the response.

This way, Dice DB is single threaded for execution, but each command execution can be multi-threaded leveraging all the cores of the underlying hardware.

Describe alternatives you've considered
There is no way to do value based operations and key based filters are expensive. No matter what we are not leveraging all the underlying cores

Additional context
This would open up the whole world of multi-core data structures and algorithms to be added to Dice.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We need a way to filter out keys on the basis of wildcard patterns; so that the KV tuples can be piped through other commands for in-mem aggregations.

Describe the solution you'd like
Create a command FILTERKEYS that accepts wildcards as an argument and returns the list of KV pairs as a response.

> FILTERKEYS "*user:*"
0) 0) user:1
    1) value:1
1) 0) user:2
    1) value:2

a JSON equivalent of the response is

[
    ["user:1", "value:1"],
    ["user:2", "value:2"],
    ...
]

To power Milestone 1: Pokemon Premier League #46, we need to support the queue data structure. We start with an integer queue that needs to have very optimal on space and time. Also, add tests to ensure the correctness of the system.

Commands Specification: https://github.com/DiceDB/dice/wiki/Queue-of-Integers

• the list can have a cap of entries (configuration) we can put in there
• commands to add, and remove elements from the list given an index

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We need a way to filter out values on the basis of some condition on the value.

Describe the solution you'd like
Create a command FILTERVALS that accepts wildcards as an argument and returns the list of KV pairs as a response.

> FILTERVALS "*value:*"
0) 0) user:1
    1) value:1
1) 0) user:2
    1) value:2

a JSON equivalent of the response is

[
    ["user:1", "value:1"],
    ["user:2", "value:2"],
    ...
]

Describe the bug
We render a Dice emoji when the server starts and not all terminals hold the capability to render an emoji. Hence switch from an emoji to a Unicode "⚄".

To Reproduce

1. start the Dice DB server on the 8-bit terminal

Expected behavior
The dice emoji should render but it shows a broken Unicode. Hence replace it with ⚄

Currently, there are almost no unit tests for the GET command. We need a comprehensive test suite for this command that also checks the correctness and completeness.

1. covers the correctness of single command
2. covers the correctness when multiple commands are fired
3. no commands are dropped abruptly
4. ensure we check for small, large, and massive inputs (if applicable)

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
This is a relatively new project and I guess it would be nice if we can make it easier for people to play-around. Docker image will let people do that.

Describe the solution you'd like
Creating a Dockerfile with linux image as base.

I would love to take this up, won't be a huge task.

We need a way to standardize the errors

• the language
• format
• conventions
• global declarations
• error codes

https://github.com/uber-go/guide/blob/master/style.md#errors

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Atomics and Mutexes are common solutions for locking. Behind the scenes, they are tuned for exclusive access and not for quick turn-around.

A common remedy to his problem is lock-free programming but not everything can be turned into a lock-free construct. Turnaround time should be minimal if the primary use case is a key-value store, moreover, if more data types and eviction policies are to be introduced in the future then this turnaround time would be significant with the current storage engine based on map[string]*object.

For instance, in LFU, while inserting key-value I've to keep track of the access frequency and if the store is found to be near its capacity, it should evict the least frequently used value, this is a classic example of a chain where every single operation being blocked by a mutex and releasing of those mutexes itself depend on the response time of storage layout.

Describe the solution you'd like
Not just in Golang, but in C++ also we have been using constructs like singleton, monostate, etc which are designed around exclusivity. And to address those problems we use " signals and slots".

So the solution I propose is to use "Buffered channels" with a slot size of 1. The above problem of LFU policy can easily be modeled using slots, a buffered channel essentially operates on a slot being filled or empty and has the potential to make a quick turnaround.

As discussed earlier in #31 (comment) , a storage engine based on slices is friendly enough for GC and we should only use maps/hashtables for DB index ( db 0, db 1, db 2....) as on top of weird GC issues with maps, the computation for hash function also causes a significant delay on an "ms" scale.

Describe alternatives you've considered
N/A

Additional context
N/A

Describe the bug
cant run in a linux ec2

To Reproduce
launch an ubuntu ec2
clone
go run main.go

fails

Expected behavior
Not able to start in ec2 linux

Additional context

ubuntu at ec2 in ~/dice on master
$ go run main.go
# sort
/usr/local/go/src/sort/zsortfunc.go:10:6: insertionSort_func redeclared in this block
	/usr/local/go/src/sort/zfuncversion.go:10:6: other declaration of insertionSort_func
/usr/local/go/src/sort/zsortfunc.go:20:6: siftDown_func redeclared in this block
	/usr/local/go/src/sort/zfuncversion.go:19:6: other declaration of siftDown_func
/usr/local/go/src/sort/zsortfunc.go:38:6: heapSort_func redeclared in this block
	/usr/local/go/src/sort/zfuncversion.go:38:6: other declaration of heapSort_func
/usr/local/go/src/sort/zsortfunc.go:329:6: swapRange_func redeclared in this block
	/usr/local/go/src/sort/zfuncversion.go:65:6: other declaration of swapRange_func
/usr/local/go/src/sort/zsortfunc.go:335:6: stable_func redeclared in this block
	/usr/local/go/src/sort/zfuncversion.go:163:6: other declaration of stable_func
/usr/local/go/src/sort/zsortfunc.go:378:6: symMerge_func redeclared in this block
	/usr/local/go/src/sort/zfuncversion.go:187:6: other declaration of symMerge_func
/usr/local/go/src/sort/zsortfunc.go:464:6: rotate_func redeclared in this block
	/usr/local/go/src/sort/zfuncversion.go:252:6: other declaration of rotate_func

ubuntu at ec2 in ~/dice on master
$ uname -a
Linux ec2 5.15.0-1020-aws #24-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 1 16:04:17 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Converting string to []byte is not a typecast but a mem copy and rebuilding, hence it becomes expensive.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Dice DB does not run on Windows natively.

Describe the solution you'd like
Dice DB currently does not run on Windows because it does not support EPOLL, hence we need to add support for IOCP and do a conditional build.

Following functions need better comments

Here is a list of files along with the lines highlighted that need better comments making it easier to understand what's happening

• https://github.com/DiceDB/dice/blob/master/core/eval.go#L170-L176

Here's why I think it is difficult to understand the code

understanding how we are forking, referring to Go doc for that, and the reason for doing it would help.

Describe the bug
BGREWRITEAOF starts overwriting the existing file; hence in case of a failure, while creating the AOF file, the old flush is lost while the new one is partially updated.

To Reproduce

1. add random sleep in BGREWRITEAOF after each command is flushed on the disk
2. crash the process while BGREWRITE is happening
3. see the AOF file content

Expected behavior
Until the new AOF file is not ready, we should not alter the old file.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Unit tests are fine but we need to fire the command and test the changes.

Describe the solution you'd like
Provision a test suite that allows unit testing and an ability to test commands over a temporary Dice server

Describe the bug
Not a bug but more of something that caught my eye when reading the codebase. It's my first time looking at or attempting anything open source. Lmk if this is the wrong category to file this. I wanted to open this issue so I could make a corresponding PR and fix this.

Package: core
File: eval.go
Method: evalGET

Get(key) will delete any expired key already, so the conditional listed below is redundant in code.

if hasExpired(obj) {
		return RESP_NIL
}

Expected behavior
Remove redundant condition since Get(key) takes care of the case.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
A clear and concise description of what the problem is. Ex. I'm always frustrated when [...]

This might be too early, but I am curious on how software benchmarking is handled. I got to know redis has a redis-benchmark utility. Can we have benchmarking utility for dice as well. This feature might not be urgent but I am curious to look into this.

Describe the solution you'd like
A clear and concise description of what you want to happen.

Describe alternatives you've considered
A clear and concise description of any alternative solutions or features you've considered.

Additional context
Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.

Currently, there are almost no unit tests for the PING command. We need a comprehensive test suite for this command that also checks the correctness and completeness.

1. covers the correctness of single command
2. covers the correctness when multiple commands are fired
3. no commands are dropped abruptly
4. ensure we check for small, large, and massive inputs (if applicable)

Currently, there are almost no unit tests for the TTL command. We need a comprehensive test suite for this command that also checks the correctness and completeness.

1. covers the correctness of single command
2. covers the correctness when multiple commands are fired
3. no commands are dropped abruptly
4. ensure we check for small, large, and massive inputs (if applicable)

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
A clear and concise description of what the problem is. Ex. I'm always frustrated when [...]

Is there any medium for communication like slack or discord?

Describe the solution you'd like
A clear and concise description of what you want to happen.

Describe alternatives you've considered
A clear and concise description of any alternative solutions or features you've considered.

Additional context
Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
There are no KV databases that support values-based aggregations. Doing a summation of integer values in the KV store would help us address a bunch of real-world use-cases

• all expenses dumped as KV, summation will give net balance quickly

Describe the solution you'd like
Introduce a command SUMVAL that does a summation of all the values and returns the result.

Bug Desc
In evalSET function the following line has an issue. since the command may take multiple arguments in-future and ex argument can be in any position.
exDurationSec, err := strconv.ParseInt(args[3], 10, 64)

it should be
exDurationSec, err := strconv.ParseInt(args[i], 10, 64)

Describe the bug
DiceDB doesn't build on linux/arm64. It gives the following error:

~:/dice# go build
# github.com/dicedb/dice/core
core/eval.go:178:44: undefined: syscall.SYS_FORK

As mentioned, it is because of the use of syscall.SYS_FORK in eval.go

func evalBGREWRITEAOF(args []string) []byte {
	newChild, _, _ := syscall.Syscall(syscall.SYS_FORK, 0, 0, 0)
        ...
        ...
}

To Reproduce
Run go build on a linux/arm64 machine

Expected behavior
The build should happen successfully without any error messages and generate a binary

Additional context
Upon simply googling about this, came across this issue in golang repo: golang/go#11981
Also, found a related stackoverflow answer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28370646/how-do-i-fork-a-go-process/28371586#28371586

TL;DR: Calling fork() using Syscall is unsafe, recommended API is ForkExec instead

Dockerize the project so that it will be easier for contributor and user to quickly run the project with minimal effort on any machine

1. I cloned your repo
2. ran go run main.go
3. and, just for curiosity, did curl HTTP://0.0.0.0:7379
   after that machine freezes ( htop stats showing 80% RAM consumed by go-build)

Currently, there are almost no unit tests for the SET command. We need a comprehensive test suite for this command that also checks the correctness and completeness.

1. covers the correctness of single command
2. covers the correctness when multiple commands are fired
3. no commands are dropped abruptly
4. ensure we check for small, large, and massive inputs (if applicable)

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The expiration runs in the event loop unnecessarily starving the core execution.

Describe the solution you'd like
Let there be a goroutine that periodically wakes up and deletes the expired keys. We need to take care of a close-edge case though. What if a key is about to

Naive solution: lock and execute
Con: unnecessarily the entire hashtable is locked, giving us potentially no benefit.

Possible solution: park the expired value in a different hashmap (trash can) for some time, if it is accessed within n seconds, well and good. otherwise, delete it. This two-stage deletion will ensure we are minimizing (not eradicating) the edge case. In the trash can, each element has a separate ticker.

Advantage: no need to lock the hash table (key store)

Additional context
This approach is inspired by Garbage Collectors.

We need a way to build Dice DB for all platforms upon creating a new release tag. We can use GoReleaser to do this.

Following functions need better comments

• all the commands implemented in eval.go file. Write exhaustive documentation suggesting what it does.

Here's why I think it is difficult to understand the code

Code may not be very difficult to understand, but adding the documentation will make it easier for the new contributors to get started quickly.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
There is no way for a client to initiate a shutdown of the server. We need this to shut down the server gracefully after running tests.

Describe the solution you'd like
We need a command SHUTDOWN that shuts down the server, gracefully.