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.

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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Ben Johnson – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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!

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