VeltrixDB
Zero-compaction, memory-first NVMe key-value storage engine
VeltrixDB launched on May 26, 2026 with 3 votes, #3,449 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.
What it does
VeltrixDB: High-Performance KV Storage We built VeltrixDB for bare-metal NVMe. By ditching LSM-trees for an In-memory Adaptive Radix Tree (ART) and append-only Value Log, we’ve eliminated compaction spikes. Stack: Linux io_uring + Direct I/O. Performance: Flat, microsecond latencies at billion-key scale. Trade-off: Optimized for pure IOPS & lock-free point reads (No range queries). Perfect for HFT, AdTech & extreme caching. Benchmarks: https://github.com/VeltrixDB/veltrixdb-benchmark
VeltrixDB keeps your working set on NVMe instead of RAM: sub-5ms P99 at a billion keys, ~10× lower cost per GB, 1.0× write amplification, any cloud. Apache 2.0, Kubernetes-first.
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