OpenDHT provides an easy to use distributed in-memory data store. Every node in the network can read and write values to the store. Values are distributed over the network, with redundancy. It includes the following features:

• Lightweight and scalable, designed for large networks and small devices;

• High resilience to network disruption;

• Public key cryptography layer providing optional data signature and encryption (using GnuTLS);

• IPv4 and IPv6 support;

• Clean and powerful C++14 map API;

• Bindings for C, Rust & Python 3;

• REST API with an optional HTTP client and server with push notification support.

The following tools are also included:

dhtnode

A command line tool to run a DHT node and perform operations supported by the library (get, put, etc.) with text values.

dhtchat

A very simple IM client working over the DHT.