Chord is a peer-to-peer, distributed lookup system that uses concepts of Distributed Hash Tables and Consistent Hashing
to efficiently perform lookups in networks where nodes join and leave arbitrarily.
Consistent hashing provides a way to quickly stabilize the network in such a dynamic environment,
and it does so by re-distributing only a small fraction of keys (hence most of the nodes remain unaffected).
This project is a Java based implementation of the core functionalities of Chord - joining of a node, construction and correction of finger tables and insertion, removal and lookup of keys. For an in-depth understanding, refer the Chord research paper.
After cloning the project, open up a terminal and from the project root directory issue the following commands:
./gradlew build./gradlew --console plain run(--console plain removes unnecessary logs)
Then, use the CLI options to interact with the application (1 to join a new node, 2 to insert data, etc..)
