A curated list of awesome Go storage projects and libraries. Inspired by awesome-go.

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• Awesome Go Storage
  • Storage Server
  • Key-Value Store
  • File System
  • Database
  • Database Drivers

Storage Servers implemented in Go.

• minio - Minio is an open source object storage server compatible with Amazon S3 APIs.
• rclone - "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, Amazon Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Cloudfile…
• perkeep - Perkeep is your personal storage system for life: a way of storing, syncing, sharing, modelling and backing up content.
• s3git - Git for Cloud Storage. Distributed Version Control for Data.
• storj - Decentralized cloud object storage that is affordable, easy to use, private, and secure.
• rook - Open, Cloud Native, and Universal Distributed Storage.
• longhorn - Longhorn is an open source persistent block storage server delivered via containers.

Key-Value Store implemented in Go.

• Bitcask - Bitcask is an embeddable, persistent and fast key-value (KV) database written in pure Go with predictable read/write performance, low latency and high throughput thanks to the bitcask on-disk layout (LSM+WAL).
• Bitraft - Bitraft is a distributed raft-based key/value store with a Redis-compatible protocol. It uses Bitcask for high performance/throughout and low latency.
• BadgerDB - BadgerDB is an embeddable, persistent, simple and fast key-value (KV) database written in pure Go. It's meant to be a performant alternative to non-Go-based key-value stores like RocksDB.
• column - Embeddable, columnar, in-memory store with bitmap indexing, transaction and zero-alloc quering.
• consul - Distributed consistent replicated key-value store for service discovery and configuration.
• diskv - A disk-backed key-value store.
• etcd - Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system.
• go-cache - An in-memory key:value store/cache (similar to Memcached) library for Go, suitable for single-machine applications.
• IceFireDB - Distributed disk storage database using the Raft and Redis protocols.
• nutsdb - Nutsdb is a simple, fast, embeddable, persistent key/value store written in pure Go. It supports fully serializable transactions and many data structures such as list, set, sorted set.
• pogreb - Embedded key-value store for read-heavy workloads.
• rosedb - A fast, stable and embedded k-v database in pure Golang, supports string, list, hash, set, sorted set.
• LotusDB - Fast k/v storage compatible with lsm tree and b+tree.

File Systems implemented in Go.

• afero - A FileSystem Abstraction System for Go
• fsnotify - Cross-platform file system notifications for Go.
• juicefs - A distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3.
• gcsfuse - A user-space file system for interacting with Google Cloud Storage.
• git-lfs - Git extension for versioning large files.
• go-systemd - Go bindings to systemd socket activation, journal, D-Bus, and unit files.
• goofys - A high-performance, POSIX-ish Amazon S3 file system written in Go.
• minikeyvalue - A ~1000 line distributed key value store.
• seaweedfs - SeaweedFS is a simple and highly scalable distributed file system for small files.
• svfs - A virtual file system over Openstack Swift built upon fuse.

Databases implemented in Go.

• BigCache - Efficient key/value cache for gigabytes of data.
• bolt - A low-level key/value database for Go. This original version by Ben Johnson has been marked as unmaintained and forked by etcd-io bbolt.
• buntdb - A fast, embeddable, in-memory key/value database for Go with custom indexing and spatial support.
• cache2go - An in-memory key:value cache which supports automatic invalidation based on timeouts.
• clover - A lightweight document-oriented NoSQL database written in pure Golang.
• cockroach - A Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Transactional Datastore
• couchcache - A RESTful caching micro-service backed by Couchbase server.
• CovenantSQL - A SQL Database with Blockchain features.
• dgraph - Scalable, Distributed, Low Latency, High Throughput Graph Database.
• diskv - A home-grown disk-backed key-value store.
• dolt - A MySQL-compatible database with Git-style version control. The first SQL database you can branch and merge.
• eliasdb - Dependency-free, transactional graph database with REST API, phrase search and SQL-like query language.
• emitter - Scalable, low-latency, distributed & secure pub/sub database with time-series message storage, suitable for IoT, gaming, apps and real-time web.
• forestdb - Go bindings for ForestDB.
• frostdb - Embeddable column database written in Go.
• GCache - Cache library with support for expirable Cache, LFU, LRU and ARC.
• geocache - An in-memory cache that is suitable for geolocation based applications.
• go-cache - An in-memory key:value store/cache (similar to Memcached) library for Go, suitable for single-machine applications.
• godis - A Golang implemented high-performance Redis server and cluster
• goleveldb - An implementation of the LevelDB key/value database in the Go.
• groupcache - Groupcache is a caching and cache-filling library, intended as a replacement for memcached in many cases.
• immudb - Database with built-in cryptographic proof and verification. Can operate as a key-value store or as relational database (SQL).
• influxdb - Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
• ledisdb - Ledisdb is a high performance NoSQL like Redis based on LevelDB.
• levigo - Levigo is a Go wrapper for LevelDB.
• moss - Moss is a simple LSM key-value storage engine written in 100% Go.
• noms - The versioned, forkable, syncable database.
• objectbox-go - Embedded Object Database (NoSQL) with Go API.
• piladb - Lightweight RESTful database engine based on stack data structures.
• pREST - Serve a RESTful API from any PostgreSQL database.
• prometheus - Monitoring system and time series database.
• rqlite - The lightweight, distributed, relational database built on SQLite.
• scribble - A tiny flat file JSON store.
• SpiceDB - A Zanzibar-inspired database that stores, computes, and validates application permissions with support for multiple database backends.
• tidb - TiDB is a distributed SQL database. Inspired by the design of Google F1.
• tiedot - Your NoSQL database powered by Golang.
• Tile38 - A geolocation DB with spatial index and realtime geofencing.

Database schema migration.

• darwin - Database schema evolution library for Go
• goose - Database migration tool. You can manage your database's evolution by creating incremental SQL or Go scripts.
• gormigrate - Database schema migration helper for Gorm ORM.
• migrate - Database migration handling in Golang support MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, and SQLite.
• pravasan - Simple Migration tool - currently for MySQL but planning to support soon for Postgres, SQLite, MongoDB, etc.,
• soda - Database migration, creation, ORM, etc... for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
• sql-migrate - Database migration tool. Allows embedding migrations into the application using go-bindata.

Database tools.

• go-mysql - A go toolset to handle MySQL protocol and replication.
• go-mysql-elasticsearch - Sync your MySQL data into Elasticsearch automatically.
• kingshard - kingshard is a high performance proxy for MySQL powered by Golang.
• myreplication - MySql binary log replication listener. Support statement and row based replication.
• orchestrator - MySQL replication topology manager & visualizer
• pgweb - A web-based PostgreSQL database browser
• vitess - vitess provides servers and tools which facilitate scaling of MySQL databases for large scale web services.
• usql - universal command-line interface for SQL databases

SQL query builder, libraries for building and using SQL.

• buildsqlx - Go Database query builder library
• dat - Go Postgres Data Access Toolkit
• Dotsql - Go library that helps you keep sql files in one place and use it with ease.
• goqu - An idiomatic SQL builder and query library.
• grimoire - Grimoire is a database access layer and validation for golang. (Support: MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite3).
• igor - Abstraction layer for PostgreSQL that supports advanced functionality and uses gorm-like syntax.
• ozzo-dbx - Powerful data retrieval methods as well as DB-agnostic query building capabilities.
• SQLBoiler - a tool to generate a Go ORM tailored to your database schema. It is a "database-first" ORM as opposed to "code-first", and you must first create your database.
• sqrl - SQL query builder, fork of Squirrel with improved performance.
• Squirrel - Go library that helps you build SQL queries.
• xo - Generate idiomatic Go code for databases based on existing schema definitions or custom queries supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server.

Libraries for connecting and operating databases.

• Relational Databases

  • bgc - Datastore Connectivity for BigQuery for go.
  • firebirdsql - Firebird RDBMS SQL driver for Go
  • go-adodb - Microsoft ActiveX Object DataBase driver for go that using database/sql.
  • go-bqstreamer - BigQuery fast and concurrent stream insert.
  • go-mssqldb - Microsoft MSSQL driver in go language.
  • go-oci8 - Oracle driver for go that using database/sql.
  • go-sql-driver/mysql - MySQL driver for Go.
  • go-sqlite3 - SQLite3 driver for go that using database/sql.
  • gofreetds Microsoft MSSQL driver. Go wrapper over FreeTDS.
  • pgx - PostgreSQL driver supporting features beyond those exposed by database/sql.
  • pq - Pure Go Postgres driver for database/sql.

• NoSQL Databases

  • aerospike-client-go - Aerospike client in Go language.
  • arangolite - Lightweight golang driver for ArangoDB.
  • asc - Datastore Connectivity for Aerospike for go.
  • cayley - A graph database with support for multiple backends.
  • dsc - Datastore connectivity for SQL, NoSQL, structured files.
  • dynago - Dynago is a principle of least surprise client for DynamoDB
  • go-couchbase - Couchbase client in Go
  • go-couchdb - Yet another CouchDB HTTP API wrapper for Go
  • gocb - Official Couchbase Go SDK
  • gocql - A Go language driver for Apache Cassandra.
  • gomemcache - memcache client library for the Go programming language.
  • gorethink - Go language driver for RethinkDB
  • goriak - Go language driver for Riak KV
  • mongo-go-driver - The Go driver for MongoDB
  • neo4j - Neo4j Rest API Bindings for Golang
  • Neo4j-GO - Neo4j REST Client in golang.
  • neoism - Neo4j client for Golang
  • redigo - Redigo is a Go client for the Redis database.
  • redis - Redis client for Golang
  • redis - A simple, powerful Redis client for Go.
  • redeo - Redis-protocol compatible TCP servers/services.

• Search and Analytic Databases

  • bleve - A modern text indexing library for go.
  • elastic - Elasticsearch client for Go.
  • elastigo - A Elasticsearch client library.
  • skizze - A probabilistic data-structures service and storage.

• Multiple Backends

  • Fiber Storage - Premade storage drivers that implement the Storage interface.
  • gokv - A simple key-value store interface and many implementations for Go (Redis, Consul, etcd, bbolt, BadgerDB, LevelDB, Memcached, DynamoDB, S3, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CockroachDB and many more)