BoltDB, InfluxDB, Key-Value Databases (Changelog Interviews #170)

Ben Johnson joined the show to talk about BoltDB, InfluxDB, and several other key-value store databases out there and why he’s so passionate about developing open source software.

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Featuring:

• Ben Johnson – Website, GitHub, X
• Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Ben Johnson on Twitter
• Ben Johnson on GitHub
• BoltDB - Embedded key/value store
• LMDB - Key/value store BoltDB is based on
• LevelDB - Popular embedded key/value store from Google
• InfluxDB - Timeseries database written in Go that Ben works on
• Parquet - Columnar storage format that Ben is porting to Go
• The Secret Lives of Data
• [Hero] Ilya Grigorik on GitHub

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!