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Description

This subproject implements the vault component of the MaidSafe Network. Vaults provide a RESTful-like API for clients to connect to a MaidSafe Network. Client interactivity with the network will create the appropriate policies to be passed to the policy-based class design environment.

Features

• Distributed structured data
• Distributed unstructured data
• Automatic fail-over and self healing
• Consistent data integrity checking and repairing
• Node identification guaranteed via PKI provided by MaidSafe-Passport
• Fully encrypted data store (key value)
• Public data store
• Shared data handling
• Data versioning and merge resolution (mostly automatic)
• Built to run in hostile environments (including public Internet)
• No servers required at all (no DNS, time servers etc.)

Status

This library is considered PRE-ALPHA quality and is provided with a full test suite and QA suite. This should not be considered for use in production quality systems at this time. There is currently a limit on message size that requires attention at the earliest convenience.