Bitalosdb

• As an alternative to RocksDB, we compared the performance of BitalosDB released in October 2025 with RocksDB v10.10.1 released in February 2026.

Hardware

CPU:    Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8255C CPU @ 2.50GHz
Memory: 384GB
Disk:   2*3.5TB SSD

• Disk(File) IOPS(BW)

BlockSize	Write	RandWrite	Read	RandRead
4KB	294K(1150MiB/s)	232K(905MiB/s)	446K(1742MiB/s)	446K(1743MiB/s)
8KB	266K(2080MiB/s)	244K(1902MiB/s)	309K(2414MiB/s)	404K(3159MiB/s)

Program

• Benchmark thread number: 8

• Program cpu cgroup: 8 core

Data

• Key-value spec: key-size=32B、value-size=1KB

• Comparison dimensions: Total data size(25/50/100GB) * IO ratio(100% random write, 100% random read, 50% random write + 50% random read, 30% random write + 70% random read)

Config

• rocksdb

Memtable：1GB
WAL：disable
Cache：8GB
TargetFileSize：128MB
MinBlobSize：256B

• bitalosdb

Memtable：1GB
WAL：disable
Cache：disable

Result

• QPS