Resources

Unorganized

• rocksdb crate docs
• The Design of the Postgres Storage System (VLDB 1987)
• How CockroachDB's MVCC Model Works (RocksDB Meetup 2015, video, slides
  • they store one key for metadata, then key per each MVCC version
  • custom order logic to get MVCC versions sorted largest-first
• RocksDB transactions: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki/Transactions#optimistictransactiondb, https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki/WritePrepared-Transactions, https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki/WriteUnprepared-Transactions
• RocksDB objects must be deleted before exit (or you crash with "pure virtual method called" in destructor): https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/issues/649#issuecomment-119779477 via https://github.com/rust-rocksdb/rust-rocksdb/issues/463
• RocksDB merge operator: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki/Merge-Operator, https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki/Merge-Operator-Implementation
• each RocksDB column family takes about 64 MiB RAM: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/issues/2426