[1oooqooq]

their use case is mostly-never-retrieved images!

they store the index of files only in memory. and have the entire build time to fetch build-1 images to get ready for the diff.

it's much easier than most use cases

[annacappa]

So all of this ram is being used and is only accessed sporadically if at all. This is not good. Sounds like you could implement the entire thing on a micro db instance (redis or a regular db) with no raft or any other custom implementation or messing.