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ANNOUNCE: valkey-tcl 1.0.0
Hi Everyone! I am pleased to announce version 1.0.0 of valkey-tcl. valkey-tcl is TCL/C extension that provides an interface to the Valkey key-value store. The Valkey database is a BDS-licensed fork of the well-known Redis in-memory, NoSQL data store, supported by the Linux Foundation: https://valkey.io/ This is the first version and it does not support every possible feature, but it should provide enough features for production use. At this point, the key features are: * supports connections via TCP or UNIX sockets * supports TLS/SSL connections (this requires TLS/SSL support in the linked libvalkey, and must be enabled explicitly) * supports Linux and MacOS platforms * supports authorization * supports automatic reconnection with retries in case of connection loss * supports all valkey commands via universal command interface * built as a single loadable shared object * MIT license Homepage and sources are on github: https://github.com/jerily/valkey-tcl Please fill free to check/build/use it. Any feedback is welcome! -- Best regards, Konstantin KushnirClick on article to view all threads in comp.lang.tcl
Re: ANNOUNCE: valkey-tcl 1.0.0
Konstantin Kushnir <chpock@gmail.com> posted: > I am pleased to announce version 1.0.0 of valkey-tcl. > > valkey-tcl is TCL/C extension that provides an interface to the Valkey > key-value store. Hi Konstantin, I've been using Redis from Tcl via Pietro Cerutti's Retcl interface - https://code.ptrcrt.ch/retcl/doc/trunk/docs/index.html . Since Valkey is a fork of Redis I had assumed that Retcl would also work for it, though I have not tried it yet myself. Could you explain what advantages valkey-tcl has? -- Thanks, Colin Macleod.Click on article to view all threads in comp.lang.tcl
Re: ANNOUNCE: valkey-tcl 1.0.0
Colin Macleod <user7@cmacleod.me.uk.invalid> posted: > Konstantin Kushnir <chpock@gmail.com> posted: > > > I am pleased to announce version 1.0.0 of valkey-tcl. > > > > valkey-tcl is TCL/C extension that provides an interface to the Valkey > > key-value store. > > Hi Konstantin, I've been using Redis from Tcl via Pietro Cerutti's > Retcl interface - https://code.ptrcrt.ch/retcl/doc/trunk/docs/index.html . > Since Valkey is a fork of Redis I had assumed that Retcl would also work > for it, though I have not tried it yet myself. Could you explain what > advantages valkey-tcl has? I see that valkey-tcl uses a C library. Retcl is pure Tcl code, so easier to install, but might have lower performance. Valkey-tcl appears to only support synchronous commands, I don't see an equivalent to the async and callback-driven modes that Retcl also has. The libvalkey page says "It also supports any server that uses the RESP protocol" so that suggests that valkey-tcl would also work with Redis or with any of the other compatible alternatives such as KeyDB. -- Colin Macleod.Click on article to view all threads in comp.lang.tcl
Re: ANNOUNCE: valkey-tcl 1.0.0
On Mon, 26 Aug 24 07:48:34 GMT Colin Macleod <user7@cmacleod.me.uk.invalid> wrote: > Colin Macleod <user7@cmacleod.me.uk.invalid> posted: > > > I am pleased to announce version 1.0.0 of valkey-tcl. > > Hi Konstantin, I've been using Redis from Tcl via Pietro Cerutti's > > Retcl interface - https://code.ptrcrt.ch/retcl/doc/trunk/docs/index.html . > > Since Valkey is a fork of Redis I had assumed that Retcl would also work > > for it, though I have not tried it yet myself. Could you explain what > > advantages valkey-tcl has? > I see that valkey-tcl uses a C library. Retcl is pure Tcl code, so easier > to install, but might have lower performance. Yes, you are right. This is the main advantage of valkey-tcl. It is written in C and uses C library for communication with the remote server. It should consume as few resources as possible (CPU/RAM/execution time) and is intended for high-load services with multiple threads and high response time requirements. > Valkey-tcl appears to only support synchronous commands, I don't see an > equivalent to the async and callback-driven modes that Retcl also has. Yes. This is the first version, asynchronous mode is not yet supported. > The libvalkey page says "It also supports any server that uses the RESP > protocol" so that suggests that valkey-tcl would also work with Redis or > with any of the other compatible alternatives such as KeyDB. I believe it should work with other databases that use the RESP protocol. Unfortunately, I cannot confirm this for sure. We only tested this with the latest available version of the valkey server and Redis 6.0.x. If you get a chance to test this package on Redis 7.4+ or KeyDB, then we will be very grateful to you! -- Best regards, Konstantin KushnirClick on article to view all threads in comp.lang.tcl