It's good to see a solution that makes efficient use of CPU cores on each machine instead of forcing you to scale horizontally from the beginning ;p

I think a lot of servers/database engines today tend to focus on horizontal scalability across large numbers of single-CPU instances and tend to ignore the efficiency benefits of a hybrid approach using fewer large instances.

Cool project. Out of curiousity (and having no experience with scala or akka): is the lack of support for transactions and atomic Lua scripts a consequence of the overall architecture (one actor per K/V), or some other technical limitation, or just something you haven't gotten around to?

Hey! This is interesting (&awesome), the other day I was looking at Riak and some Redis alternative written in Go, both had some different approach which wouldn't make the best use of persistencey and distrusted approach at the same time.

The performance table looks great, though what would be a recommended minimum underlying hardware requirement for production? (since the test is on a Mac-Air)