KantoDB user manual

Welcome to the KantoDB user manual.

KantoDB is an OLTP1-oriented hybrid SQL database server and programming library. It is written in the Rust programming language, and uses RocksDB for underlying data storage.

You can use it as a library like SQLite, or as a database server like Postgres.

KantoDB is still very early in development. See development roadmap for our plans.

This document is intended to serve two audiences:

  • software developers writing applications that use KantoDB for data storage and processing, with SQL or abstractions such as an ORM
  • administrators (/devops/SRE) managing servers and services that run KantoDB

For sake of space, this manual assumes general knowledge of computers, SQL, and Linux.

If you find a bug in this manual, or in KantoDB, please tell us about it on the community forums.

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Online Transaction Processing; as opposed to OLAP (Online Analytical Processing), OLTP workloads have more writes, point queries (one or few affected rows), and use indexes more, as opposed to OLAP workloads that have read-heavy range scans that read a significant portion of the total data on every run.