LevelDB - Fast and Lightweight Key/Value Database From the Authors of MapReduce and BigTable - High Scalability -

LevelDB is an exciting new entrant into the pantheon of embedded databases, notable both for its pedigree, being authored by the makers of the now mythical Google MapReduce and BigTable products, and for its emphasis on efficient disk based random access using log-structured-merge (LSM) trees. The plan is to keep LevelDB fairly low-level. The intention is that it will be a useful building block fo