6 alternatives to rocksdb

facebook/rocksdb — A library that provides an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage. (32,211 stars, GPL-2.0, database, testing, dev-tools).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It does not serve code from facebook/rocksdb itself (licence class: strong-copyleft), so these alternatives are the licence-cleared route.

The alternatives in detail

• google/leveldb
  LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values.
  score 4.1/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 39,503 stars · 130 components · search them
• electric-sql/pglite
  Embeddable Postgres with real-time, reactive bindings.
  score 7.0/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 16,191 stars · 120 components · search them
• dicedb/dicedb
  Open-source, low-latency key/value engine built on Valkey with query subscriptions and hierarchical storage tiers.
  score 4.7/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 10,775 stars · 515 components · search them
• dgraph-io/badger
  Fast key-value DB in Go.
  score 6.9/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 15,789 stars · 66 components · search them
• etcd-io/etcd
  Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system
  score 6.9/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 52,412 stars · 611 components · search them · alternatives
• kriszyp/lmdb-js
  Simple, efficient, ultra-fast, scalable data store wrapper for LMDB
  score 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 684 stars · 74 components · search them

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