Comparison: KiviGo vs Other Go Key-Value Libraries

⚠️ Note: The following comparison is provided for convenience and is based on the state of these libraries at the time of writing. Features and APIs may evolve over time—please refer to each project's documentation for the most up-to-date information.

There are several Go libraries for key-value storage, each with different goals and trade-offs. Here’s how KiviGo compares to some popular alternatives:

Library	Unified API	Pluggable Backends	Pluggable Encoders	Health Checks	Batch Ops	Mock/Test Support	Extensible
KiviGo	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
gokv	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	➖
libkv	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	➖
gokvstores	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	➖

Backend feature matrix (high level)

Embedded Stores

Backend	Default (List/Get/Set/Delete)	Batch (Get/Set/Delete)	Health
BBoltDB	✅	✅	✅
BadgerDB	✅	✅	✅

Distributed Stores

Backend	Default (List/Get/Set/Delete)	Batch (Get/Set/Delete)	Health
Redis	✅	✅	✅
Consul	✅	✅	✅
etcd	✅	✅	✅

Distributed Caches

Backend	Default (List/Get/Set/Delete)	Batch (Get/Set/Delete)	Health
Memcached	⚠️ (No List)	✅	✅

Cloud

Backend	Default (List/Get/Set/Delete)	Batch (Get/Set/Delete)	Health
Amazon DynamoDB	✅	✅	✅
Azure Cosmos DB	✅	✅	✅

SQL

Backend	Default (List/Get/Set/Delete)	Batch (Get/Set/Delete)	Health
MySQL	✅	✅	✅
PostgreSQL	✅	✅	✅

NOSQL

Backend	Default (List/Get/Set/Delete)	Batch (Get/Set/Delete)	Health
MongoDB	✅	✅	✅

For more details on each backend and real examples, see the individual backend docs in the documentation section.

Backend feature matrix (high level)​

Embedded Stores​

Distributed Stores​

Distributed Caches​

Cloud​

SQL​

NOSQL​