BadgerDB Documentation

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.

Quickstart Guide

A single page quickstart guide to get started with BadgerDB

Resources Additional resources and information

Design

Design goals behind BadgerDB

Projects

using Badger A list of known projects that use BadgerDB

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Badger

Embeddable, persistent, and fast key-value database that powers Dgraph

Changelog

The Changelog is kept fairly up-to-date.

• Badger v1.0 was released in Nov 2017, and the latest version that is data-compatible with v1.0 is v1.6.0.
• Badger v2.0 was released in Nov 2019 with a new storage format which won’t be compatible with all of the v1.x. Badger v2.0 supports compression, encryption and uses a cache to speed up lookup.

For more details on our version naming schema please read Choosing a version.

Contribute

Contribute to Badger

Get started with contributing fixes and enhancements to Badger and related software.

Our Community

Badger is made better every day by the growing community and the contributors all over the world.

Community

Discuss Badger on the official community.