LevelDB implementation in pure Go

This is a LevelDB implementation, written in pure Go.

This project is in early stage of development, and should not be considered as stable. Don't use it in production!

Goals

This project aims to write an pure Go implementation for LevelDB. It conforms to LevelDB storage format, but not implementation details of official. This means that there may be differences in implementation with official.

Features

Clean interface
The only exporting package is the top level package. All other packages are internal, and should not used by clients.
Concurrent compactions
Client can control concurrency of compactions through CompactionConcurrency option.

Usage

Create or open a database

options := &leveldb.Options{
	CreateIfMissing: true,
	// ErrorIfExists:   true,
	// Filter: leveldb.NewBloomFilter(16),
}
db, err := leveldb.Open("dbname", options)
if err != nil {
	// Handing failure
}
defer db.Close()

Reads and writes

var db *leveldb.DB
var err error
var key, value []byte

// Put key value pair to db
err = db.Put(key, value, nil)

// Read key's value from db
value, err = db.Get(key, nil)
if err == leveldb.ErrNotFound {
	// Key not found
}

// Delete key from db
err = db.Delete(key, nil)

Batch writes

var db *leveldb.DB
var err error
var key, value []byte

var batch leveldb.Batch
batch.Put(key, value)
batch.Delete(key)

err = db.Write(batch, nil)

Iteration

var db *leveldb.DB
var it leveldb.Iterator
var err error
var start, limit, prefix []byte

// All keys from db
it = db.All(nil)
defer it.Close()
for it.Next() {
	fmt.Printf("key: %x, value: %x\n", it.Key(), it.Value())
}
err = it.Err()


// All keys greater than or equal to given key from db
it = db.Find(start, nil)
defer it.Close()
for it.Next() {
}
err = it.Err()


// All keys in range [start, limit) from db
it = db.Range(start, limit, nil)
defer it.Close()
for it.Next() {
}
err = it.Err()


// All keys starts with prefix from db
it = db.Prefix(prefix, nil)
defer it.Close()
for it.Next() {
}
err = it.Err()

Snapshots

var db *leveldb.DB
var key, start, limit, prefix []byte

snapshot := db.GetSnapshot()
defer snapshot.Close()

// Dup an snapshot for usage in another goroutine
go func(ss *leveldb.Snapshot) {
	defer ss.Close()
	it := ss.Prefix(prefix, nil)
	defer it.Close()
	for it.Next() {
	}
}(snapshot.Dup())


// Use snapshot in this goroutine
value, err := snapshot.Get(key, nil)

it := snapshot.Range(start, limit, nil)
defer it.Close()
for it.Next() {
}

Benchmarks

See kezhuw/go-leveldb-benchmarks.

TODO

License

The MIT License (MIT). See LICENSE for the full license text.

Contribution

Before going on, make sure you agree on The MIT License (MIT)..

This project is far from complete, lots of things are missing. If you find any bugs or complement any parts of missing, throw me a pull request.

Acknowledgments

google/leveldb Official implementation written in in C++.
My knownledge of LevelDB storage format and implementation details mainly comes from this implementation.
syndtr/goleveldb Complete and stable Go implementation.
The DB.Range, DB.Prefix, and filter.Generator interface origin from this implementation.
golang/leveldb Official but incomplete Go implementation.
The Batch and Comparator.AppendSuccessor origins from this implementation.

kezhuw/leveldb