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 latecny
High throughput (See: Performance

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.Set("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.

Performance

Benchmarks run on a 11" Macbook with a 1.4Ghz Intel Core i7:

$ make bench
...
BenchmarkGet/128B-4         	  500000	      2537 ns/op	     672 B/op	       7 allocs/op
BenchmarkGet/256B-4         	  500000	      2629 ns/op	    1056 B/op	       7 allocs/op
BenchmarkGet/512B-4         	  500000	      2773 ns/op	    1888 B/op	       7 allocs/op
BenchmarkGet/1K-4           	  500000	      3202 ns/op	    3552 B/op	       7 allocs/op
BenchmarkGet/2K-4           	  300000	      3904 ns/op	    6880 B/op	       7 allocs/op
BenchmarkGet/4K-4           	  300000	      5678 ns/op	   14048 B/op	       7 allocs/op
BenchmarkGet/8K-4           	  200000	      8948 ns/op	   27360 B/op	       7 allocs/op
BenchmarkGet/16K-4          	  100000	     14635 ns/op	   53472 B/op	       7 allocs/op
BenchmarkGet/32K-4          	   50000	     28292 ns/op	  114912 B/op	       7 allocs/op

BenchmarkPut/128B-4         	  200000	      8173 ns/op	     409 B/op	       6 allocs/op
BenchmarkPut/256B-4         	  200000	      8404 ns/op	     538 B/op	       6 allocs/op
BenchmarkPut/512B-4         	  200000	      9741 ns/op	     829 B/op	       6 allocs/op
BenchmarkPut/1K-4           	  100000	     13118 ns/op	    1411 B/op	       6 allocs/op
BenchmarkPut/2K-4           	  100000	     17982 ns/op	    2573 B/op	       6 allocs/op
BenchmarkPut/4K-4           	   50000	     35477 ns/op	    5154 B/op	       6 allocs/op
BenchmarkPut/8K-4           	   30000	     54021 ns/op	    9804 B/op	       6 allocs/op
BenchmarkPut/16K-4          	   20000	     96551 ns/op	   18849 B/op	       6 allocs/op
BenchmarkPut/32K-4          	   10000	    129957 ns/op	   41561 B/op	       7 allocs/op

BenchmarkScan-4             	 1000000	      2011 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