The Kivaloo Data Store

While Colin Percival assessed the performance of his online backup service Tarsnap he concluded that although there were some server side scalability issues that were popping up, so long as the traffic growth remained the same they were safe for the year.

Well that year was enough time for Percival to build a key/value data store for Tarsnap to help solve his particular problem. So what is Kivaloo? As Percival states in his blog post it's easier to state what Kivaloo is not:

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