BoltDB

BoltDB is an embedded key/value database written in Go. It supports fully serializable transactions, ACID semantics, and lock-free MVCC with multiple readers and a single writer. BoltDB uses a single-level, zero-copy, B+tree data storage, which allows fast read access and does not require recovery in the event of a system crash.

• https://godoc.org/github.com/boltdb/bolt

History

In 2011, Howard Chu introduced MDB, a memory-mapped database backend for OpenLDAP, later renamed to [LMDB] (https://symas.com/lmdb/technical/)(Lightning Memory-Mapped Database). In 2013, BoltDB was initially started by Ben Johnson as a port of LMDB to Go, but then the two projects diverged as the author of Bolt decided to focus on simplicity and providing the easy-to-use Go API. The goal of BoltDB became to provide a simple, fast, and reliable database for projects that don't require a full database server such as Postgres or MySQL. With BoltDB being stable, its API fixed, and its file format fixed, the author considered the project a success. Leaving it in such a state, the project was abandoned by its author in 2017.

• https://www.progville.com/go/bolt-embedded-db-golang/
• https://github.com/boltdb/bolt#other-projects-using-bolt

Website

https://github.com/boltdb/bolt

Source Code

https://github.com/boltdb/bolt

Tech Docs

https://godoc.org/github.com/boltdb/bolt

Developer

Ben Johnson

Country of Origin

US

Start Year

2013

• https://github.com/boltdb/bolt/commit/7b38858d98c2bf73b70c682a3f0f11b09785e5dc

End Year

2017

• https://github.com/boltdb/bolt/blob/master/README.md#a-message-from-the-author

Project Type

Open Source

Written in

Go

Supported languages

Go

Inspired By

LMDB

Operating Systems

BSD, Linux, OS X, Solaris, Windows

Licenses

MIT