basho/bitcask
because you need another a key/value storage engine observed · 2026-10-08
Health v2 · maintenance only
63/100
- Activity 89
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 6020
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 68
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1421 stars · 176 forks observed · 2026-10-08
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Bitcask is a log-structured hash table storage engine for fast key/value data, written in Erlang by Basho. It is the underlying storage engine used by the Riak distributed database.
Use cases
- embed a fast key/value storage engine in an Erlang application
- store key/value data with low write latency
- understand or reuse the storage engine behind Riak
- persist large numbers of keys with in-memory index lookups
- build a simple persistent hashmap on disk
When to choose
- you are building Erlang/Elixir software that needs an embedded log-structured key/value store
- you need the exact storage engine used by Riak
- your workload is write-heavy with point lookups by key
When to avoid
- you need a standalone database server rather than an embedded library
- you need range queries or secondary indexes, which bitcask does not support
- you need a storage engine with an active community and modern language bindings
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
database caching databases developer-tools elixir key-value-store storage-engine log-structured erlang riak linux macos
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/basho/bitcask · fetched 2026-10-08 · 46783c776442
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| basho/bitcask | main | 63 |
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