Show HN: Keybench – Scriptable, extensible performance tool for key value stores

Category: devtools

Tags: benchmarking, key-value-store, lua-scripting

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 9, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

Keybench is a scriptable, extensible performance benchmarking tool for sorted key-value stores, allowing users to define workloads in Lua and run them consistently across multiple storage engines. Its unique architecture features a plugin-based backend system, per-operation latency histograms, and a flexible reporter system, making it stand out for comparative performance analysis. The project is technically impressive with custom Lua integration, thread-safe concurrency handling, and detailed telemetry, but its utility is currently limited to niche key-value store benchmarking.

Target audience: backend devs, data engineers, devops

Repository: https://github.com/guycipher/keybench · C · GPL-2.0 · 1 stars

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