Audience
Key value store solution for developers
About BoltDB
Bolt is a pure Go key/value store inspired by Howard Chu's LMDB project. The goal of the project is to provide a simple, fast, and reliable database for projects that don't require a full database server such as Postgres or MySQL. Since Bolt is meant to be used as such a low-level piece of functionality, simplicity is key. The API will be small and only focus on getting values and setting values. That's it. The original goal of Bolt was to provide a simple pure Go key/value store and to not bloat the code with extraneous features. To that end, the project has been a success. However, this limited scope also means that the project is complete. Maintaining an open source database requires an immense amount of time and energy. Changes to the code can have unintended and sometimes catastrophic effects so even simple changes require hours and hours of careful testing and validation.