Available now
Open source
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- ✓MIT-licensed Rust LSM engine
- ✓WAL, SSTables, leveled compaction, MVCC
- ✓kill -9 crash tests in CI
- ✓Embed in your product — take it with you
Spindle Cloud
The engine is free today. Cloud has a waitlist.
The Rust LSM is MIT-licensed and real. Spindle Cloud — managed hosting on top of it — is not live, and nothing is for sale. If you would use it, join the waitlist and tell me about your workload; that decides whether it gets built.
Exploring · not built
Spindle Cloud
What a managed version would aim for. These are goals, not features — there is no hosted endpoint, SLA, or price today.
- ○Managed durable storage behind a put / get / scan API
- ○Snapshots and point-in-time recovery
- ○One flat monthly price instead of capacity units
- ○The same open engine under the hood
Join the waitlist
Opens an email to MaxMcCutcheon1@outlook.com. No payment, no account.
Why a managed Spindle might be worth building
Forecastable spend (hypothesis)
Cloud aims to replace capacity planning meetings with one subscription finance can model — if hosting ships.
Escape hatch built in
Open-source core means you’re never hostage to one vendor’s API or pricing flip. True today.
Faster incident clarity
When storage breaks, you can read the write path — or email the founder who wrote it.
Simpler ops surface
One KV model. Less training debt. Less console sprawl for every new service.
Want the details first? Read the design notes or the case study.