How RocksDB works
published on 2023/04/20
RocksDB is an embeddable persistent key-value store. It's a type of database designed to store large amounts of unique keys associated with values. The simple key-value data model can be used to build search indexes, document-oriented databases, SQL databases, caching systems and message brokers.
RocksDB was forked off Google's LevelDB in 2012 and optimized to run on servers with SSD drives. Currently, RocksDB is developed and maintained by Meta.
RocksDB is written in C++, so additionally to C and C++, the ะก bindings allow embedding the library into applications written in other languages such as Rust, Go or Java.