RoseDB is a lightweight, fast, and reliable key-value storage engine implemented in Go, based on the Bitcask storage model. It provides a simple embedded database library with operations like Put, Get, Delete, batch writes, TTL/expiry, key watching, and merge (compaction). The architecture uses a Write-Ahead Log (WAL) for persistence and an in-memory BTree index for fast lookups. The codebase is well-structured, with clean separation of concerns: the DB layer, index abstraction, record encoding, and utility functions. It demonstrates strong engineering practices including thread safety via sync.RWMutex, object pooling for performance, and a pluggable index interface. The repository includes comprehensive tests, benchmarks, and examples. It is actively maintained with recent commits and a responsive community.
Zedis is a high-performance, Redis-compatible in-memory data store written in Zig. It implements the RESP protocol and supports core Redis data structures (strings, lists, TTL, pub/sub) along with advanced features: time-series with Gorilla compression, full-text search with BM25 and vector KNN (FLAT), probabilistic Bloom filters, and both AOF and RDB persistence. The architecture uses a multi-threaded server with a dedicated store thread for serialized command execution, custom budgeted allocators, and a lock-free client mailbox for message passing. While production-ready in capability, the project is explicitly designed for learning and experimentation and shows some documentation-to-code drift and a handful of unmaintained TODO items. It includes an extensive benchmark suite comparing against Valkey.