BadgerDB is quite a nice piece of software and (from my tests) the best key-value store in Go.

Dgraph wrote a great explanation article about why they wrote Badger and the tradeoffs and designs reasons: http://web.archive.org/web/20181116033431/https://blog.dgrap...

Judging from the precipitous decline in Badger commits since 20221 [0] and that the original/primary author is no longer with dgraph [1] or working on Badger, it may be worth looking at Cockroach's Pebble [2] instead.

[0] https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph/graphs/contributors

[1] https://manishrjain.com/about

[2] https://github.com/cockroachdb/pebble

+100 and an upvote. Badger db seems so under-rated to be and is a great drop in replacement for an embedded KV store. Amazing for several simple sharded simple side projects!