* avoid unnecessary use of encoder/decoder to decrease memory allocations * add an optional configurable mempool to avoid extra allocs * add doc.go with examples
bitcask
A high performance Key/Value store written in Go with a predictable read/write performance and high throughput. Uses a Bitcask on-disk layout (LSM+WAL) similar to Riak
For a more feature-complete Redis-compatible server, distributed key/value store have a look at Bitraft which uses this library as its backend. Use Bitcask as a starting point or if you want to embed in your application, use Bitraft if you need a complete server/client solution with high availability with a Redis-compatible API.
Features
- Embeddable (import "github.com/prologic/bitcask")
- Builtin CLI (bitcask)
- Builtin Redis-compatible server (bitcaskd)
- Predictable read/write performance
- Low latency
- High throughput (See: Performance )
Development
- Get the source
$ git clone https://github.com/prologic/bitcask.git
- Install required tools
This library uses Protobuf to serialize data on disk. Please follow the
instructions for installing protobuf on your system. You will also need the
following Go libraries/tools to generate Go code from Protobuf defs:
- Build the project
$ make
This will invoke go generate and go build.
Install
$ go get github.com/prologic/bitcask
Usage (library)
Install the package into your project:
$ go get github.com/prologic/bitcask
package main
import "github.com/prologic/bitcask"
func main() {
    db, _ := bitcask.Open("/tmp/db")
    defer db.Close()
    db.Put("Hello", []byte("World"))
    val, _ := db.Get("Hello")
}
See the godoc for further documentation and other examples.
Usage (tool)
$ bitcask -p /tmp/db set Hello World
$ bitcask -p /tmp/db get Hello
World
Usage (server)
There is also a builtin very  simple Redis-compatible server called bitcaskd:
$ ./bitcaskd ./tmp
INFO[0000] starting bitcaskd v0.0.7@146f777              bind=":6379" path=./tmp
Example session:
$ telnet localhost 6379
Trying ::1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
SET foo bar
+OK
GET foo
$3
bar
DEL foo
:1
GET foo
$-1
PING
+PONG
QUIT
+OK
Connection closed by foreign host.
Docker
You can also use the Bitcask Docker Image:
$ docker pull prologic/bitcask
$ docker run -d -p 6379:6379 prologic/bitcask
Performance
Benchmarks run on a 11" Macbook with a 1.4Ghz Intel Core i7:
$ make bench
...
BenchmarkGet/128B-4         	  300000	      4071 ns/op	  31.43 MB/s	     608 B/op	       7 allocs/op
BenchmarkGet/256B-4         	  300000	      4700 ns/op	  54.46 MB/s	     992 B/op	       7 allocs/op
BenchmarkGet/512B-4         	  300000	      4915 ns/op	 104.17 MB/s	    1824 B/op	       7 allocs/op
BenchmarkGet/1K-4           	  200000	      5064 ns/op	 202.20 MB/s	    3488 B/op	       7 allocs/op
BenchmarkGet/2K-4           	  200000	      6276 ns/op	 326.31 MB/s	    6816 B/op	       7 allocs/op
BenchmarkGet/4K-4           	  200000	      8960 ns/op	 457.11 MB/s	   13984 B/op	       7 allocs/op
BenchmarkGet/8K-4           	  100000	     12465 ns/op	 657.16 MB/s	   27296 B/op	       7 allocs/op
BenchmarkGet/16K-4          	  100000	     19233 ns/op	 851.84 MB/s	   53408 B/op	       7 allocs/op
BenchmarkGet/32K-4          	   50000	     33106 ns/op	 989.77 MB/s	  114848 B/op	       7 allocs/op
BenchmarkPut/128B-4         	  100000	     13659 ns/op	   9.37 MB/s	     409 B/op	       6 allocs/op
BenchmarkPut/256B-4         	  100000	     14854 ns/op	  17.23 MB/s	     539 B/op	       6 allocs/op
BenchmarkPut/512B-4         	  100000	     20823 ns/op	  24.59 MB/s	     829 B/op	       6 allocs/op
BenchmarkPut/1K-4           	   50000	     28086 ns/op	  36.46 MB/s	    1411 B/op	       6 allocs/op
BenchmarkPut/2K-4           	   30000	     40797 ns/op	  50.20 MB/s	    2574 B/op	       6 allocs/op
BenchmarkPut/4K-4           	   20000	     75518 ns/op	  54.24 MB/s	    5155 B/op	       6 allocs/op
BenchmarkPut/8K-4           	   10000	    122544 ns/op	  66.85 MB/s	    9811 B/op	       6 allocs/op
BenchmarkPut/16K-4          	   10000	    201167 ns/op	  81.44 MB/s	   18851 B/op	       6 allocs/op
BenchmarkPut/32K-4          	    5000	    350850 ns/op	  93.40 MB/s	   41565 B/op	       7 allocs/op
BenchmarkScan-4             	 1000000	      1867 ns/op	     493 B/op	      25 allocs/op
For 128B values:
- ~400,000 reads/sec
- ~130,000 writes/sec
The full benchmark above shows linear performance as you increase key/value sizes.
License
bitcask is licensed under the MIT License