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From: Sean Lynch <seanl@literati.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 20:28:00 +0000
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To: Lucas Betschart <lucasbetschart@gmail.com>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] [patch] Switching Bitcoin Core to sqlite db
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On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 1:23 AM Lucas Betschart via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> Facebook has a LevelDB fork which is maintained.
> It's called RocksDB and the API seems to be nearly the same as for
> LevelDB, thus maybe easy to replace: http://rocksdb.org/
> https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb
>
> Although I don't know if we might have some negative effects for our
> use-case since RocksDB was optimized for big databases running on multiple
> cores.
>

While RocksDB is pretty decent, note that it's optimized for flash. Not
sure how well it will work on spinning disks.

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, 2015 at 1:23 AM Lucas Betschart via bitcoin-dev &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:bit=
coin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org">bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org</=
a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 =
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book has a LevelDB fork which is maintained.<div>It&#39;s called RocksDB an=
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b.org/</a> =C2=A0=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb" targ=
et=3D"_blank">https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb</a></div><div><br></div><=
div>Although I don&#39;t know if we might have some negative effects for ou=
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e cores.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>While RocksDB is prett=
y decent, note that it&#39;s optimized for flash. Not sure how well it will=
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