v0.5.0-alpha.1

[buraksezer]

Here is the first alpha of v0.5.x tree. It includes many improvements including:

• A new version of Olric API. Now Olric has a Client interface and two implementations of it: ClusterClient and EmbeddedClient
• In-house binary protocol is removed. Olric now uses RESP for communication. Any Redis client can be used to access the Olric clusters.
• Default storage engine is vastly improved. Its compaction behavior is completely changed. It's now more memory efficient and fast.
• The old client implementation has been removed. You can use ClusterClient now.
• olric-cli and olric-benchmark are removed. redis-cli and memtier-benchmark can be used instead of those tools.

The new API can be inconsistent for now. During the next months, those inconsistencies will be fixed gradually.

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This discussion was created from the release v0.5.0-alpha.1.