Design

• Write a key-value database in pure Go.
• Optimize for SSDs.

Badger’s design is based on a paper titled .

2 RocksDB is an SSD optimized version of LevelDB, which was designed specifically for rotating disks. As such RocksDB’s design isn’t aimed at SSDs.

4 Badger provides direct access to value versions via its Iterator API. Users can also specify how many versions to keep per key via Options.

Benchmarks