Jeff Garzik [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-10-28 📝 Original message:On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at ...

📅 Original date posted:2015-10-28
📝 Original message:On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Sean Lynch <seanl at literati.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 1:23 AM Lucas Betschart via bitcoin-dev <
> bitcoin-dev at 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.
>

That's OK for our purposes. We have a huge database which already
incentivized having zero seek time.
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