Over at Search Storage Forum, Jeff Layton from Intel writes that key-value storage is quickly becoming a popular storage technology that may be coming to a file system near you. As a fundamental data ...

Kved implements a dictionary type data structure, using numeric keys and values, ... I don’t know why you’d want a key-value store, because it would only store key values. Report comment.

More elaborate data structures and query languages can be, and sometimes are, built on key-value stores. In that scenario, database builders usually either implement their own key-value store ...