ForestDB - A Fast Key-Value Storage Engine Based on Hierarchical B+-Tree Trie

ForestDB is a key-value storage engine developed by Couchbase Caching and Storage Team, and its main index structure is built from Hierarchical B+-Tree based Trie, called HB+-Trie. ForestDB paper has been published in IEEE Transactions on Computers.

Compared with traditional B+-Tree based storage engines, ForestDB shows significantly better read and write performance with less storage overhead. ForestDB has been tested on various server OS environments (Centos, Ubuntu, Mac OS x, Windows) and mobile OSs (iOS, Android). The test coverage stats for ForestDB are available in ForestDB Code Coverage Report.