RocksDB is a persistent key-value store for fast storage environments where keys and values are arbitrary byte streams. It’s based on LevelDB as well as ideas borrowed from Apache HBase.
This is is a library that forms the core building block for a fast key-value server, especially suited for storing data on flash drives. The primary design point for RocksDB is that it should be performant for fast storage and for server workloads.
RocksDB is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Uses a log structured database engine, written entirely in C++, for maximum performance. Keys and values are just arbitrarily-sized byte streams.
- Optimized for fast, low latency storage such as flash drives and high-speed disk drives.
- Adaptable to different workloads. From database storage engines such as MyRocks to application data caching to embedded workloads, RocksDB can be used for a variety of data needs.
- Provides basic operations such as opening and closing a database, reading and writing to more advanced operations such as merging and compaction filters.
Website: rocksdb.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Facebook Database Engineering Team
License: Apache License 2.0
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Related Software
| Key Value Stores | |
|---|---|
| RocksDB | Persistent key-value store for flash and RAM Storage |
| Valkey | High-performance data structure server |
| Apache Cassandra | Distributed database management system |
| ScyllaDB | Real-time big data database |
| Apache Accumulo | Based on Google's BigTable design |
| ArangoDB | Native multi-model database |
| Aerospike CE | Real-time NoSQL database and key-value store |
| Berkeley DB | Family of open source, embeddable databases |
| LevelDB | Fast and lightweight key/value database library by Google |
| Garnet | Remote cache-store |
| KeyDB | High performance fork of Redis |
| Redict | Distributed key/value store |
| Project Voldemort | Distributed data store |
| Scalaris | Distributed transactional key-value store |
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