VoltDB driver for Google go (golang)

See api.go for usage hints. There are some client examples in the example direcory.

This driver was largely written for fun and is still relatively incomplete. See below for some of the more important missing parts.

The driver connects to a running VoltDB database node and calls procedures. The simplest example, omitting correct error handling, is:

func main() {
    volt, _ := voltdb.NewConnection("username", "", "localhost:21212")
    response, _ := volt.Call("@AdHoc", "select * from store order by Key limit 3;");
    type Row struct {
        Key string
        Value string
    }
    var row Row
    for response.Table(0).HasNext() {
        response.Table(0).Next(&row)
        fmt.Printf("Row: %v %v\n", row.Key, row.Value)
    }
}

There are a few examples in github.com/rbetts/voltdbgo/cmds.

The driver supports invoking stored procedures and reading responses. However, there are several serializations that are not yet implemented.

• Exception deserialization in responses not supported.
• VARBINARY not supported
• DECIMAL not supported
• Creation of serialized VoltTables is not supported.
• Arrays as stored procedure parameters not supported.
• SQL NULL is not supported.

There are missing api methods.

• There is no way to reset the table iterator.

There are missing components expected for a production client:

• The client doesn't reconnect closed sockets.
• The client doesn't provide a high level interface to connect to multiple nodes of a VoltDB database.

Row deserialization could be substantially more flexible. It would be nice to allow tagged field names to specify columns (instead of requiring the struct fields to be in column-order).