Keybench
Scriptable, extensible performance tool for key value stores
Details
- External ID
- 48429957
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Keybench
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- June 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 13
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6707650273224044
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I've been working with storage engines for quite a while and really there was no similar tool to sysbench and or HammerDB for key-value storage engines. Thus I introduce a POC called keybench. I hope you check it out, and do give it a run to drive your favorite engine.Cheers!
Enrichment
- Theme
- self-hosted infrastructure and security tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- performance benchmarking for key value stores
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A basic CLI benchmark can be vibe-coded, but an extensible, high-throughput storage engine benchmark requires low-level multi-threaded C/C++/Rust systems work to measure p99 latency without introducing harness contention.
What it would actually take: Requires high-performance C/C++ or Rust harness utilizing io_uring or direct embedded C bindings (LMDB, RocksDB, LevelDB) and non-blocking actors to generate predictable IOPS loads. The difficult part is eliminating thread synchronization overhead, accurate HDR histogram recording at microsecond resolution, and reproducible deterministic access patterns across concurrent engines.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 23 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #14 of 24 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 219 days after the earliest competitor.
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