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RocksDB is developed and maintained by Facebook Database Engineering Team.It is built on earlier work onLevelDB by Sanjay Ghemawat (sanjay@google.com)and Jeff Dean (jeff@google.com)

This code is a library that forms the core building block for a fastkey value server, especially suited for storing data on flash drives.It has a Log-Structured-Merge-Database (LSM) design with flexible tradeoffsbetween Write-Amplification-Factor (WAF), Read-Amplification-Factor (RAF)and Space-Amplification-Factor (SAF). It has multi-threaded compactions,making it specially suitable for storing multiple terabytes of data in asingle database.

Start with example usage here:https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/tree/master/examples

See thegithub wiki for more explanation.

The public interface is ininclude/. Callers should not include orrely on the details of any other header files in this package. Thoseinternal APIs may be changed without warning.

Design discussions are conducted inhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/rocksdb.dev/

RocksDB is dual-licensed under both the GPLv2 (found in the COPYING file in the root directory) and Apache 2.0 License (found in the LICENSE.Apache file in the root directory). You may select, at your option, one of the above-listed licenses.