ddeep-core
This is a beta version !
🚀 Decentralized real-time peer-to-peer data network to run your database, peer, and relay all at once.
ddeep-core is used to run a back-end environment to save and sync decentralized graph data across peers, powered with flexible extensions, real-time connections, AI-powered policies, and more....
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Real-time peer-to-peer connections ⚡️
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AI-powered data policies and scopes 🔒
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Extensions, so you can add your own code and packages to ddeep 🧩
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Fast & Scalable by design ☄️
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Full customizability and flexibility 🔧
you can use ddeep-core as your full project's back-end, and soon you will be able to handle routing to build API functionalities 🔥
Installation
We recommend you clone this repository and run npm install
.
Using npm, you can install ddeep-core globally:
npm install -g ddeep-core
Now create a directory for your project and run:
ddeep-init
This will give you a complete ready-to-go environment, you can run npm start
to start your network.
Table of contents
Getting started
node & npm
To start your network using npm, just run:
npm start
or simply using node:
node ./dist/build.js
docker
You can also run it in Docker, first build the docker image:
docker build -t ddeep-core .
and now you can run a docker container:
docker run -d ddeep-core
build
To build your core again (needed after updating configurations, policies, and extensions):
npm run build
Currently, everytime you make a change on your configurations, policies, extensions, or code, you need to build ddeep-core again, thanks to esbuild the build will usually be ready in under one second.
in coming versions this won't be the case and you won't need to build the code after every change.
Beta
This project is a beta as it's still in its early stage and there are a lot of more amazing ideas coming to it, but anyway for now we don't recommend using it in production.
Configurations
in the root directory of your project, you'll find a config file called ddeep.config.js
where all your configurations live, the default file content should look like this:
You need to build the code using npm run build
after everytime you update your configurations. this won't be the case in future versions.
module.exports = {
"storage": true,
"port": 9999,
"logs": true,
"hf": null,
"checkpoint": null
}
Policies
Add policies
You can add policies to the policies.config.js
file in the root directory of your project.
You need to build the code using npm run build
after everytime you configure your policies.
Schema
let's first discover a policy schema in Ddeep:
{
name: string,
operations: ['get', 'put'],
graph: Array<string>
type: "check" || "smart",
check: Function
}
There are two types of policies, check policies and smart policies, so let's discover how every policy works.
the graph
property accept an array of nodes. if you apply a policy to ["people"]
node it's applied to all nodes under 'people', but if you apply a policy to ["people", "kais"]
the policy will only be applied to the node 'kais' under 'people', and so on.
Check policies
Check policies are based on the check function, if the function returns true
the access to the data will be granted and if it returns false
the data access will be denied.
Usage
let's see a simple example:
module.exports = [
{
name: "policy1",
operations: ["put"],
node: ["people", "kais"],
type: "check",
check (data) {
return (data) ? true : false;
}
}
]
this policy will be applied to put
operations to the node 'kais' inside the node 'people' and it checks if the data we are putting have a 'plan' property or not, if it does, the data operation will be granted and the data will be added otherwise the operation will be cancelled.
the data
argument passed to the check contains the data being putted if the operation is put
, and the data is being getted
is the operation is get
.
what matters is that the check()
function has to return true
or false
, if returned true
the opeartion will be processed, and if returned false
the opeartion will be ignored.
for example this is also a valid check()
policy function:
check (data) {
if (data.plan === "pro") return true;
if (data.plan !== "pro") return false;
}
you have full customizability to build your own check functions and policies.
Smart policies
WARNING: the text classification model is giving poor classes scores and is not acurate, we are currently working on a fix for this
Smart policies uses AI classification to classify the inputs and gives an object of classes with a score from 0.0 to 1.0 for every class or emotion as 1.0 is the highest score.
HuggingFace token
First of all we recommend you add your HuggingFace token to your ddeep.config.js
so you don't suffer from hard rate limits.
Usage
You can check if a class is more than a certain value or less than a certain value, It's super easy let's see the example below:
module.exports = [
{
name: "smart policy",
operations: ["get", "put"],
graph: ["posts"],
type: "smart",
check: (classes) => {
var smartCheck = ddeepExt.load('smart_check');
return smartCheck(classes, [
[ "anger", "<0.5", true ],
[ "anger", ">0.5", false ]
]);
};
}
]
the policy above is applied to all nodes under "posts" and it blocks all data that contains angry inputs from being added or read.
smart_check
extension
with smart policies you need to use smart_check
extension to check the classes and return true
or false
.
the extension can be loaded using ddeepExt.load
and it's imported to your policies by default, this is how smart_check
is used:
var smartCheck = ddeepExt.load('smart_check');
return smartCheck(classes, [
[class:string, condition:string, return:true||false]
])
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Classes: passed to policy's check()
if the policy type is set to smart
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Class: have to be a valid class name.
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Condition: a string that starts with an operator and then a value to check if the class value apply to the condition. valid opeartors:
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Return: if the condition is applied, the check will return the value if the return
.
Extensions
You can use extensions to expand the functionality of ddeep-core easily with full control, real-time listeners, and more...
Add extensions
you add your extensions to the extensions.config.js
found in the root directory of your project.
You need to build the code using npm run build
after everytime you configure your extensions.
Schema
{
"name": string,
"callback": Function
}
Write your extensions
module.exports = [
{
name: 'object-keys',
callback: (obj) => {
return (typeof obj === 'object') ? Object.keys(obj) : null;
}
}
]
This is just a very simple extension that returns the keys in a data object. this extension might not be useful but it's just an example to show you how to write your own extensions.
Use your extensions
Now you can use your extension in your policies or any other file using ddeepExt.load(extension_name)
. example:
var get_object_keys = ddeepExt.load('object-keys');
ddeepExt
is imported by default to your policies but if you want to use your extension in other files, you can require it:
var ddeepExt = require('./ext/require');
Restore checkpoints
If you are using persistent storage, you can setup a checkpoint in the ddeep.config.js
so the system will create a restore checkpoint based on the options you give it. (more explained in the ddeep.config.js
file itself).
Now to load data from a restore point, you need to run this:
node ./dev/storage/recover.js -p POINT_ID
you can check the /recover
directory to see all available checkpoints and pick a point to load your data from, use the checkpoint directory name as the POINT_ID.
Infrastructure
Communications
ddeep-core uses fastify to run a websocket server as it's a very efficient WebSocket framework that can handle tens of thousands of requests per second.
if you think that you can upgrade the communications structure, jump to development.
CRDT
ddeep-core uses conflict resolution algorithm (HAM), now this is really fully implemented into ddeep-core from gun... so we recommend you check this page for more info.
Storage
ddeep-core uses radix to handle the persistent storage functionality, if storage: true
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Policies
Check policies
There is notthing really fancy in check policies, It's just true | false
callbacks.
AI-powered policies
Currently we are using the SamLowe/roberta-base-go_emotions model through HuggingFace inference.
We are working to upgrade this to a local running classification model running locally in the server itself for lower latency and more stability.
Decentralized world
This project is part of a big movement to build a decentralized world where developers own their projects and users own their data, and ddeep-core is the core of this world.
Based on some simple benchmarks, ddeep-core can perform ~200K ops/sec on a low-end device of 2GB-4GB of ram, and we are always working to get better performance and would be happy to hear your experience with it on Matrix.
Development
dev
directory
all the code lives in the /dev
directory, and you can run npm run build
to build your code to /dist/build.js
, we use esbuild as it's the fastest tool we've ever used to build nodeJS code.
License
If you want to develop this project, distribute it or help us improve it, you're welcome to do that, just check the license and you're good to go.
NOTICE
Some of the files where taken from gun-port, and there is a license notice in the first 3 lines of these files with a notice if they were modified or not. we recommend you check gun's license before using these files in a distributed version.
Thanks
We want to give our thanks to all the wonderful people helping us to decentralize the world, and also to:
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Mark Nadal for building the best decentralized graph engine ever.
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esbuild for building the fastest bundler in the world.
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fastify for building a great fast web framework for nodeJS.
The idea of ddeep-core
ddeep-core is a complete back-end NodeJS environment to run decentralized real-time databases, peers, and relays.
ddeep-core gives you the full control to configure it, scale it, change it, or do whatever you want... it's yours.
Ddeep ecosystem
Ddeep core is part of ddeep ecosystem, a decentralized open-source ecosystem of tools for developers to build stable decentralized projects.
Gun
ddeep-core works fine with Gun as a peer, and soon we will release the complete ddeep ecosystem so you get a great API to use with ddeep-core.
the idea of this project was inspired by Gun, so we took the idea to the next level, the goal is to give developers a secure & stable way to build decentralized projects so we added policies, extensions, upgraded the connections protocols, added more storage configurations and automations for restore checkpoints, and much more...
Contact us
If you need any help, have any ideas, or want to code something together, you can always send us a message on Matrix.
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