[FR] Pluggable storage engines?

[akamensky]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Current storage relies on whisper type. A brief look into code seems it is very intertwined with the code.

Describe the solution you'd like
An abstraction interface to the storage to be able to experiment with alternative storage types or even have multiple storage types shipped with go-carbon.

Additional context
N/A

[deniszh]

Hi @akamensky
Not sure if easy/possible to do, because indeed whisper is everywhere. I had idea to implement alternative storage as whisper compatible by interface, which make sense IMO, because we have enough scalable but not whisper compatible storage for Graphite - Victoria Metrics, InfluxDB, Graphite Clickhouse etc.

[akamensky]

@deniszh I am quite interested in alternative storage options and am willing to implement at least one, but I need a list of methods that such storage driver need to implement.

[deniszh]

Hi @akamensky
You can check e.g. https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/go-graphite/go-whisper or go-whisper code. But as I said currently go-carbon is quite intertwined with whisper, maybe it's easier to build new engine based on carbon-clickhouse