What is Kivi?
Kivi is a high-performance in-memory key-value database written in the Zig programming language. Kivi is designed to be embeddable, concurrent, and fast.
⚠️ Kivi is currently in development mode and not production-ready.
Latest benchmark
comparing Kivi to Javascript's builtin Map:
| Runtime | FFI | Lookup | Insertion | Deletion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NodeJs | Napi | 2x slower | 1.2x faster | 1.9x slower |
| Deno | Napi | 1.47x slower | 2.48x slower | 1.44x slower |
| Deno | FFI | 6.89x slower | 4.07x slower | 7.73x slower |
| Bun | Napi | 1.06x faster | 1.23 faster | 1.08x slower |
| Bun | FFI | 1.64x slower | 1.3x slower | 1.97x slower |
Code of conduct
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License
Kivi is licensed under MIT. Head over to LICENSE for full description.