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Database Entry

RocksDB


RocksDB is an embedded database using key-value data, and is developed by Facebook for high performance purposes. RocksDB is forked from LevelDB, which was developed by Google to exploit the best performance of many CPU cores as well as fast storage like SSD for I/O bound workloads. Based on a log-structured merge-tree

Source Code
https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb[02]
Country of Origin
US
Start Year
2012
Former Name
N/A
Project Type
Open Source
Derived From
LevelDB

Database Entry

RocksDB


RocksDB is an embedded database using key-value data, and is developed by Facebook for high performance purposes. RocksDB is forked from LevelDB, which was developed by Google to exploit the best performance of many CPU cores as well as fast storage like SSD for I/O bound workloads. Based on a log-structured merge-tree

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