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I was excited to read its embeddable data structure then found it did Redis serialisation. I was hoping for something close to plasma store given that one isn’t getting much love these days. Would be great to get something that can save binary formats like arrow.

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Ultimately Redis just stores bytes, there's no reason you couldn't put arrow formatted data in it (or in Olric, as I understand it).

I do wish plasma wasn't dead/dying though. There is a huge gap in the (extremely crowded) key-value store space for zero-copy shared memory IPC. I assume it doesn't get built because it's not very "cloud native," but such a thing would be undeniably useful.

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