One of the leveldb authors here. TokyoCabinet is something we seriously consider... | Hacker News

One of the leveldb authors here. TokyoCabinet is something we seriously considered using instead of writing leveldb. TokyoCabinet has great performance usually. I haven't done a careful head-to-head comparison, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was somewhat faster than leveldb for many workloads. Plus TokyoCabinet is more mature, has matching server code etc. and may therefore be a better fit for

[hide-K]

LevelDB 開発前に TokyoCabinet が検討されたけど B-Tree では用途に合わなかったので LSM-Tree なライブラリ作ったよという話

[tinsep19]

データ構造でB木より、log structured merge treeのほうがよい？

[mooz]

IndexedDB の実現に B-Tree な TokyoCabinet が使われなかった理由．leveldb は LSM 使用で Random Write に優れる．他にも Farctal Tree や Streaming B-Tree などが．

[taninsw]

data structures (TokyoCabinet uses btrees for ordered storage; leveldb uses log structured merge trees), random write performance