UC

Verified User in Consumer Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/20/2016

"Easy persistence for simple needs"

5/5

What do you like best about BoltDB?

Bolt allows me to save data in a simple way in situations where no advanced operations are needed. It has no useless features and because of its internal B+ tree structure it's fast as a lightning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BoltDB?

I haven't stumbled upon anything I dislike. Everything seems logical and orthogonal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BoltDB:

Consider Bolt when you need persistence, you're open to seminiche products, Go is your language to go, NoSQL suits you and FOSS is the way to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Saving all the data of a proof-of-concept textboard project Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EB

Etienne B.

Self-employed Webdeveloper

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/13/2016

"Satisfied user"

5/5

What do you like best about BoltDB?

Simplicity; you can store any slice of bytes.

Portability; you don't need a database service running. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BoltDB?

It often requires you to do a lot of serialization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BoltDB:

If you plan to grow to more than one server, BoltDB might not be for you. You could use BoltDB, but it'd be wise to use a Go "interface" in case you ever need to replace BoltDB with something more scalable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Storing data without requiring a running database service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AL

Adrian L.

Co-Founder and CEO

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/12/2016

"Excellent reliable goto key/value store"

5/5

What do you like best about BoltDB?

BoltDB's simple API makes it fast and easy to get setup and allows you to get back to solving business problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BoltDB?

Large bulk writes are slow, so the initial loading of the database with data can take a while but this is pointed out in the documentation and the reasons for that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AH

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/12/2016

"BoltDB tl;dr review"

5/5

What do you like best about BoltDB?

BoltDB has quick reads and is embedded, two things that have come to great value in several of my projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BoltDB?

The API takes a little getting used to, but I understand why that's the route they took. There is a wrapper out there (I forget the name) that simplifies it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BoltDB:

If it fits your requirements and use case, then use it. It's a great key-value store. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I work in the medical industry and sometimes you just need to grab data quickly. BoltDB has helped achieve this early on in the development cycle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UC

Verified User in Computer Games

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/12/2016

"Nice K/V database"

3.5/5

What do you like best about BoltDB?

Simple structure

Easy to use with Golang based projects

Fast (well, every memory database is fast, but BoltDB made the best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BoltDB?

Nothing, I think that BoltDB sticks to KISS( keep it simple and stupid) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BoltDB:

If you looking for K/V db with Golang, Boltdb is your choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use Golang builtin "map" + "gob" to solve K/V storage, however self made database go slower when data grown.

BoltDB is the database meet our requirement, no more no less. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CG

Cesar G.

Full Stack Developer

Program Development

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/12/2016

"Simple and fast pure Go key/value database"

5/5

What do you like best about BoltDB?

Fast and simple. Don't require a full db Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BoltDB?

The footprint of the code could be smaller Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MC

Mohamed C.

Full Stack Developer

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/22/2016

"Simplifier"

5/5

What do you like best about BoltDB?

portability and simplicity to setup in dev process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BoltDB?

nothing, but would love to see more active dev Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UI

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/13/2016

"embedded key value storage"

3.5/5

What do you like best about BoltDB?

Simplicity, easy to manage, easy to use. Embedded solution, platform to build distributed storage systems on top of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BoltDB?

Some API inconvenience, I had to write little wrapper on top of boltdb. Too simple functionality, API extension is required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.