[hinkley]

In the kv stores I’ve used the client and the server are mostly the same process, or started out that way.

I don’t know many sane people who want to use the kv store as a system of record, and even the people who expect it to be exhaustive (all possible keys) make me doubt their sanity for that and other reasons.

So far, everyone has a bit of code that looks for a key and, if it is missing, performs the work necessary to build the payload. The code that creates the payload is never more than a couple function calls away from the retrieval code.