Sphinx

What is Sphinx?

Sphinx is a Memcached-compatible memory cache system that uses thread-per-core architecture, non-blocking networking APIs, and a log-structured memory allocator similar to (Rumble et al., 2014) to provide high throughput and consistent low latency on multicore systems.

Requirements

To build Sphinx, you need:

• C++17 compatible compiler, such as GCC 7 or Clang 5
• CMake
• Ragel
• Google Test
• Google Benchmark library

Build

To build Sphinx, run the following commands:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Usage

To start Sphinx, run the following command in the build directory:

sphinxd/sphinxd

References

Stephen M. Rumble, Ankita Kejriwal, and John Ousterhout. 2014. Log-structured memory for DRAM-based storage. In Proceedings of the 12th USENIX conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'14). USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA, USA, 1-16.