This is a fork of A fast REST API for IMDB data, which switches the Go stack by a Rust stack to see if any improvements can be done. This project has the following goals:
- Test if a solution (for the same problem) in Rust can be faster than a solution in Go.
- Ensure that it can be ran on Rust stable.
- Compare if syntax / code maintainability gets any harder than in Go or C++.
- Check if Rust is a viable toolkit for backend development.
If you want to get more information about the project's context and the database, check out the main Go project.
To use the API, first ingest the IMDB data into a MongoDB. For example, I've ingested it using PySpark into a local MongoDB instance. Then, clone this repo, install Rust 2018 stable, and run cargo run. If you want to run it as a CLI app, then run cargo install --path ..
If you are using an external MongoDB database, you can change the host settings at .cliApp.yaml.
| Collection Name | Documents | Avg. Document Size | Total Document Size | Num. Indexes | Total Index Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| crew | 10,244,172 | 139.9 B | 1.3 GB | 2 | 274.9 MB | |
| film | 7,009,774 | 293.0 B | 1.9 GB | 2 | 235.2 MB | |
| principals | 40,314,920 | 121.4 B | 4.6 GB | 1 | 389.7 MB |