Irmin is an OCaml library for building mergeable, branchable distributed data stores.
Website: irmin.org

• Built-in Snapshotting - backup and restore
• Storage Agnostic - you can use Irmin on top of your own storage layer
• Custom Datatypes - (de)serialization for custom data types, derivable via ppx_irmin
• Highly Portable - runs anywhere from Linux to web browsers and Xen unikernels
• Git Compatibility - irmin-git uses an on-disk format that can be inspected and modified using Git
• Dynamic Behavior - allows the users to define custom merge functions, use in-memory transactions (to keep track of reads as well as writes) and to define event-driven workflows using a notification mechanism

Documentation can be found online at https://mirage.github.io/irmin

Please ensure to install the minimum Opam and OCaml versions.
Find the latest version and install instructions on OCaml.org.

opam list    // listing the installed packages

To install Irmin with the command-line tool and all optional dependencies using opam:

opam install irmin-unix

Note : If you face installation issues due to pinned packages. Run the below commands to unpin and try to install again.

Unpinning irmin-unix package:

opam info irmin-unix // to get available versions
opam pin -s | grep irmin | xargs opam unpin

A minimal installation containing the reference in-memory backend can be installed by running:

opam install irmin

The following packages have been made available on opam

• irmin - the base package, plus an in-memory storage implementation
• irmin-chunk - chunked storage
• irmin-fs - filesystem-based storage using bin_prot
• irmin-git - Git compatible storage
• irmin-graphql - GraphQL server
• irmin-http - a simple REST interface
• irmin-mirage - mirage compatibility
• irmin-mirage-git - Git compatible storage for mirage
• irmin-mirage-graphql - mirage compatible GraphQL server
• irmin-unix - unix compatibility
• irmin-pack - compressed, on-disk, posix backend
• ppx_irmin - PPX deriver for Irmin content types (see README_PPX.md)
• irmin-containers - collection of simple, ready-to-use mergeable data structures

To install, simply run opam install package-name.
For more information about an individual package consult the online documentation.

To install the development version of Irmin, clone this repository and opam install the packages inside:

git clone https://github.com/mirage/irmin
cd irmin/
opam install .

Below is a simple example of setting a key and getting the value out of a Git-based, filesystem-backed store.

open Lwt.Syntax

(* Irmin store with string contents *)
module Store = Irmin_unix.Git.FS.KV(Irmin.Contents.String)

(* Database configuration *)
let config = Irmin_git.config ~bare:true "/tmp/irmin/test"

(* Commit author *)
let author = "Example <example@example.com>"

(* Commit information *)
let info fmt = Irmin_unix.info ~author fmt

let main =
  (* Open the repo *)
  let* repo = Store.Repo.v config in

  (* Load the master branch *)
  let* t = Store.master repo in

  (* Set key "foo/bar" to "testing 123" *)
  let* () =
    Store.set_exn t ~info:(info "Updating foo/bar") ["foo"; "bar"]
      "testing 123"
  in

  (* Get key "foo/bar" and print it to stdout *)
  let+ x = Store.get t ["foo"; "bar"] in
  Printf.printf "foo/bar => '%s'\n" x

(* Run the program *)
let () = Lwt_main.run main

The example is contained in examples/readme.ml. It can be compiled and executed with dune:

$ dune build examples/readme.exe
$ dune exec examples/readme.exe
foo/bar => 'testing 123'

The examples/ directory also contains more advanced examples, which can be executed in the same way.

The same thing can also be accomplished using irmin, the command-line application installed with irmin-unix, by running:

$ echo "root: ." > irmin.yml
$ irmin init
$ irmin set foo/bar "testing 123"
$ irmin get foo/bar

irmin.yml allows for irmin flags to be set on a per-directory basis. You can also set flags globally using $HOME/.irmin/config.yml. Run irmin help irmin.yml for further details.

Also see irmin --help for list of all commands and either irmin <command> --help or irmin help <command> for more help with a specific command.

Feel free to to report any issues using the Github bugtracker.

See the LICENSE file.

Development of Irmin was supported in part by the EU FP7 User-Centric Networking project, Grant No. 611001.