Lab · Experimental research

Three experiments in storage

Open research from Rillence — the framework, the database, and the dashboard we're building from first principles.

Framework

CRB

The composable runtime everything is built on.

CRB is a framework for assembling concurrent systems from typed, actor-like building blocks. It is the substrate NOR and HUG are constructed on: supervised components, message passing, and lifecycles that compose instead of fighting each other.

Actor-style components with typed messages
Supervision and predictable lifecycles
Large systems assembled from small, testable blocks

Constructible database

NOR

A database you construct, not configure.

NOR is a database engine you assemble from primitives — a durable log, an index, a transaction layer, replication — to match your workload, instead of bending a fixed database to fit. Built on CRB, every NOR system inherits the same durability and consistency guarantees by construction.

Compose a store from audited storage primitives
One engine behind KV, queue, relational or ledger shapes
Correct-by-construction durability & consistency

Embeddable dashboard

HUG

A drop-in operational UI for your database.

HUG is an embeddable dashboard for databases — ship an operational UI inside your own service instead of bolting on a separate tool. Point it at a database and get live metrics, query and lock insight, and controls, embedded where your team already works.

Embed directly in your app or service
Live metrics, query and lock insight
Operate, don't just observe

Research preview

CRB, NOR and HUG are early, experimental research — not released products. We build them in the open and publish notes as they take shape. Follow along, or tell us what you'd build with them.

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