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Consus
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rescrv / Consus

Consus

Consus is a geo-replicated transactional key-value store.

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
230GitHub stars
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What it is

Consus is a geo-replicated transactional key-value store.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-12-19 01:16:34 UTC to 2022-05-29 22:11:47 UTC.

012016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Warp is quite interesting, and seemed really promising and ahead of its time. Unfortunately, Hyperdex (which is the key-value store that implements it) has not been maintained for many years [1], and the website is dead. While the technology is impressive, the author seems to have lost interest, and moved on to working on something called Consus [2], which has also been abandoned (no activity 2018). Hyperdex never became popular, and a problem all along was that the author — a very talented developer, from what I can tell — seemed more invested in his projects from the perspective of academic research (he developed Hyperdex at Cornell, I believe) than in delivering a practical, living open source project. He tried to form a company around Hyperdex (the transactional Warp add-on was commercial) even though nobody seemed to be using it; and
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he was the sole developer. I actually submitted a PR at one point to fix a build problem, but the author was completely unresponsive; you can't really do open source that way. I think the Warp code was actually open sourced when the author realized they had failed to commercialize it, but I'm not sure; it's been a long time. [1] https://github.com/rescrv/HyperDex/issues/233 [2] https://github.com/rescrv/Consus
In Warp: Lightweight Multi-Key Transactions for Key-Value Stores
Hyperdex is no longer maintained [1]. While the technology is impressive, the author seems to have lost interest, and is now working on something called Consus [2]. Hyperdex's problem all along was that the author — a very talented developer from what I can tell — seems more invested in his projects from the perspective academic research (he's at Cornell) than in delivering a practical, living open source project. He tried to form a company around Hyperdex (the transactional "Warp" add-on thing was commercial) even though nobody seemed to be using it; and he was the sole developer. Unfortunately, as interesting as Consus is, history seems to be repeating itself there. But yeah, Hyperdex seemed to have real potential at one point. It was the only NoSQL K/V store (at the time) that had transactions. [1] https://github.com/rescrv/HyperDex/is
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