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# Hobbes
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Hobbes is a **low-level distributed database** for the Elixir programming language.
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Hobbes acts as a simple, safe, and scalable persistent storage layer for Elixir applications.
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It can scale horizontally, replicate data across machines,
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and handle disk or machine failures automatically and without disruption.
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Hobbes is designed to function as a hyper-database (or "multi-model" database):
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a database which contains many other databases within it.
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It offers an ordered key/value API which can model a wide range of data structures and indexes.
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Hobbes is transactional,
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and provides the strongest possible consistency guarantees (strict serializability) across an entire cluster,
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even in the presence of machine or network failures.
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All data and metadata is strongly checksummed to avoid corruption from bitrot or malfunctioning disks.
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Hobbes is one of only a handful of distributed databases to be built for Deterministic Simulation Testing from day one.
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We fuzz the database extensively, with simulated fault injection,
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and validate results against a model to ensure that data is never corrupted or lost.
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For this we utilize our simulation testing library, Trinity, which was designed specifically to test Hobbes.
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Building a distributed system which can store data safely is notoriously difficult.
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Hobbes is a tool designed to make it *easy*.