---
title: BoltDB Reviews
meta_title: 'BoltDB Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2'
meta_description: Filter 18 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to
  find out how BoltDB works for a business like yours.
aggregate_rating:
  rating_value: 4.4
  review_count: 18
  scale: '5'
date_modified: '2026-08-07'
parent_category:
  name: NoSQL Databases
  url: https://www.g2.com/categories/nosql-databases
---


# BoltDB Reviews
**Vendor:** BoltDB  
**Category:** [Key Value Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/key-value-databases)  
**Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 18
## About BoltDB
BoltDB is an embedded key/value database for Go.




## BoltDB Reviews
  ### 1. Abandoned after difficulty with the Golang API

**Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2016

**What do you like best about BoltDB?**

Entirely written in Go, meaning that it's easy for me to dig in to the internals if I had an issue. Offers an interesting alternative to leveldb.

**What do you dislike about BoltDB?**

The golang API is different from a other databases such as leveldb. Refactoring my code to use boltdb instead of leveldb was painful, presumably the resulting performance boost for using the batch API on a small database was negligible/nil.

The documentation also doesn't make it immediately clear on how best to handle state when using closures.

**Recommendations to others considering BoltDB:**

P.S. "Confirm yourself as a user by uploading a screenshot showing you logged into this product." , what? who wrote this survey?

**What problems is BoltDB solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Geographic search engine. In the end I opted for ledisdb because it abstracts many APIs in to a single API, meaning that I only needed to implement a single API and then test on multiple backends.

P.S. I'm not sure about the options in the dropdown below, so I'm selecting 'User', none of these are software developer roles!?



- [View BoltDB pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/boltdb/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=2&section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-12+22%3A30%3A16+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=7312d6d0-d955-4c46-85f8-502651bb2268&secure%5Btoken%5D=0bb612f8298a3de336ff56edd0b96139f8f730585c000d991f6039397f531fd3&format=llm_user)

## BoltDB Features
**Data Management**
- Data Model
- Data Types

**Availability**
- Auto Sharding
- Auto Recovery
- Data Replication

**Security**
- Audit Logs
- Encryption

**Support**
- Multi-Model
- Operating Systems

**Database Features**
- Storage
- Availability
- Stability
- Scalability
- Security
- Data Manipulation
- Query Language

## Top BoltDB Alternatives
  - [Redis Software](https://www.g2.com/products/redis-software/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (132 reviews)
  - [Couchbase](https://www.g2.com/products/couchbase/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (143 reviews)
  - [Aerospike](https://www.g2.com/products/aerospike/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (80 reviews)