What is Badger

BadgerDB is an embeddable, persistent and fast key-value (KV) database written in pure Go. It is the underlying database for Dgraph, a fast, distributed graph database. It’s meant to be a performant alternative to non-Go-based key-value stores like RocksDB.

Github repository

https://github.com/dgraph-io/badger

Configuration

You can find the configuration for Badger here or check the values table below.

Values

Key nametyperequired
Dirstring✅
ValueDirstring✅
SyncWritesbool❌
NumVersionsToKeepint❌
ReadOnlybool❌
InMemorybool❌
MetricsEnabledbool❌
NumGoroutinesint❌
MemTableSizeint64❌
BaseTableSizeint64❌
BaseLevelSizeint64❌
LevelSizeMultiplierint❌
TableSizeMultiplierint❌
MaxLevelsint❌
VLogPercentilefloat64❌
ValueThresholdint64❌
NumMemtablesint❌
BlockSizeint❌
BloomFalsePositivefloat64❌
BlockCacheSizeint64❌
IndexCacheSizeint64❌
NumLevelZeroTablesint❌
NumLevelZeroTablesStallint❌
ValueLogFileSizeint64❌
ValueLogMaxEntriesuint32❌
NumCompactorsint❌
CompactL0OnClosebool❌
LmaxCompactionbool❌
ZSTDCompressionLevelint❌
VerifyValueChecksumbool❌
EncryptionKey[]byte❌
EncryptionKeyRotationDurationtime.Duration❌
BypassLockGuardbool❌
DetectConflictsbool❌
NamespaceOffsetint❌
ExternalMagicVersionuint16❌