Status

Current state: "Under DiscussionAccepted"

Discussion thread: here

JIRA: Not available yet.

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https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki/Prefix-Seek

Similar to the implementation for RocksDB, we would implement the prefix scan for InMemoryKeyValueStore as well.

Prefix Key Serializer

One thing which should be highlighted about the prefixScan method is the prefixKeySerializer argument. This is needed because the type of the prefix could be different from the type of the actual key. For example, the key in the store could be of type UUID like 123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000. The user wants to get all keys which have the prefix 123e4567 which could be represented as a String/byte array but not a UUID. But, since all the keys are serialized in the form of byte arrays if we can serialize the prefix key, then it would be possible to do a prefix scan over the byte array key space. The argument prefixKeySerializer is provided precisely for this purpose. 

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