TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store
rgbimbochamp
59 points
17 comments
August 29, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (6 comments)
nine_k
I suppose the insane speed is due to this: > TurboKV's persisted Bloom-filter format uses hardware AES. Also, built-in LZ4 compression. I would expect SIMD to be used for scans.
dangoodmanUT
> DbOptions::durable() > Appended to the WAL without a per-write sync So… it’s not durable? Durable doesn’t mean “survives a process restart”, it means “durably saved to persistent storage”. For example, this “durable” mode wouldn’t survive power loss.
boguscoder
Embedded could also mean no_std, which this is absolutely not. Still cool though
AtlasBarfed
Aphyr or gtfo
paulsutter
Oops you built a database!
medv
Every programmer eventually creates own db: https://github.com/antonmedv/medb