In accordance with one aspect of the invention is a method of processing data operations
comprising: sending a request from an application to perform a data operation on a key
value data store, the request being in accordance with a first application-level protocol for
performing the data operation on the key-value data store and including a first key of a first
key-value pair used by a data storage system to perform the data operation; receiving the
request at the data storage sys tem, wherein the request is received by a key-value server …