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| author | Ben Johnson <benbjohnson@yahoo.com> | 2014-11-27 17:29:59 -0700 |
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| committer | Ben Johnson <benbjohnson@yahoo.com> | 2014-11-27 17:29:59 -0700 |
| commit | aa66506030b376f848667d84d2596faa8a7099ea (patch) | |
| tree | 45118c2df20a7ffa8ca3a2bfe915046543737e0b | |
| parent | Clarify cursor behavior after mutation. (diff) | |
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v1.0
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@@ -1,19 +1,10 @@ -Bolt [](https://drone.io/github.com/boltdb/bolt/latest) [](https://coveralls.io/r/boltdb/bolt?branch=master) [](https://godoc.org/github.com/boltdb/bolt)  +Bolt [](https://drone.io/github.com/boltdb/bolt/latest) [](https://coveralls.io/r/boltdb/bolt?branch=master) [](https://godoc.org/github.com/boltdb/bolt)  ==== -> Simple is the new beautiful. -> -> — [Tobias Lütke](https://twitter.com/tobi) - - -## Overview - Bolt is a pure Go key/value store inspired by [Howard Chu's][hyc_symas] and the [LMDB project][lmdb]. 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. It is also meant to be educational. Most of -us use tools without understanding how the underlying data really works. Bolt -is written so that it's easy to dig in and see what's going on. +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 @@ -25,11 +16,11 @@ and setting values. That's it. ## Project Status -Bolt is functionally complete and has nearly full unit test coverage. The -library test suite also includes randomized black box testing to ensure -database consistency and thread safety. Bolt is currently in use in many -projects, however, it is still at a beta stage so please use with caution -and report any bugs found. +Bolt is stable and the API is fixed. Full unit test coverage and randomized +black box testing are used to ensure database consistency and thread safety. +Bolt is currently in high-load production environments serving databases as +large as 1TB. Many companies such as Shopify and Heroku use Bolt-backed +services every day. ## Getting Started @@ -449,7 +440,6 @@ Below is a list of public, open source projects that use Bolt: * [ChainStore](https://github.com/nulayer/chainstore) - Simple key-value interface to a variety of storage engines organized as a chain of operations. * [MetricBase](https://github.com/msiebuhr/MetricBase) - Single-binary version of Graphite. * [Gitchain](https://github.com/gitchain/gitchain) - Decentralized, peer-to-peer Git repositories aka "Git meets Bitcoin". -* [SkyDB](https://github.com/skydb/sky) - Behavioral analytics database. * [event-shuttle](https://github.com/sclasen/event-shuttle) - A Unix system service to collect and reliably deliver messages to Kafka. * [ipxed](https://github.com/kelseyhightower/ipxed) - Web interface and api for ipxed. * [BoltStore](https://github.com/yosssi/boltstore) - Session store using Bolt. @@ -459,6 +449,7 @@ Below is a list of public, open source projects that use Bolt: * [cayley](https://github.com/google/cayley) - Cayley is an open-source graph database using Bolt as optional backend. * [bleve](http://www.blevesearch.com/) - A pure Go search engine similar to ElasticSearch that uses Bolt as the default storage backend. * [tentacool](https://github.com/optiflows/tentacool) - REST api server to manage system stuff (IP, DNS, Gateway...) on a linux server. +* [SkyDB](https://github.com/skydb/sky) - Behavioral analytics database. If you are using Bolt in a project please send a pull request to add it to the list. |