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Engula has gone through a redesign in terms of its interface and architecture. The new design is based on the lessons we learned in the past few months, and it will provide a clearer guide for future development. You can check the new design document and discussion for more details.

The most important feature in Engula 0.3 is a set of data structures. In this release, Engula provides five data types: Any, I64, Blob, List, and Map. Each data type provides a set of APIs to manipulate objects of that type. For example, you can add on I64 objects or push elements to List objects.

Moreover, Engula supports ACID transactions across different data structures. For example, you can push an element to a list and insert an index to a map in the same transaction. This feature allows users to build more advanced applications on top of Engula.

Engula 0.3 also comes with a new server and a Rust client. You can get started with this tutorial. Welcome to explore and have fun!

We have published a design document to introduce Engula's concepts and architecture. For those who don't know much about Engula or haven't been around for a while, Engula has changed a lot, and the design document is the best place to get started.

Engula 0.2 comes with one engine and three kernels:

• A hash engine that supports simple key-value operations. This engine relies on a kernel to perform stateful operations. It can work with the three kernels below to tackle different use cases.
• A memory kernel that stores everything in memory. This kernel integrates a memory journal, storage, and manifest for data storage.
• A file kernel that stores everything in local files. This kernel integrates a file journal, storage, and manifest for data storage.
• A gRPC kernel that stores data in remote gRPC servers. An engine uses a kernel client to communicate with a kernel server. The kernel server can further connect to a journal server and a storage server for data storage. Engula 0.2 provides a binary to start different kinds of servers easily.

If you want to try it out, we prepare a tutorial for you. Have fun!