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LevelDB

Database Management System

LevelDB is an open-source on-disk key-value store written by Google fellows Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat. Inspired by Bigtable, LevelDB source code is hosted on GitHub under the New BSD License and has been ported to a variety of Unix-based systems, macOS, Windows, and Android.

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Year
2011 1
Significance
A foundational embedded key-value storage library from Google, the direct ancestor of RocksDB and several other storage engines. 1
Classification
License
BSD 3-Clause 1
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Predecessor Of

RocksDB, Systems

RocksDB is a fork of Google's LevelDB, re-engineered to exploit multi-core processors and fast SSD storage.

Source Wikipedia: RocksDB
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1. Wikipedia: LevelDB
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    LevelDB is an open-source on-disk key-value store written by Google fellows Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat.
  • entity record, description (license)
    Inspired by Bigtable, LevelDB source code is hosted on GitHub under the New BSD License and has been ported to a variety of Unix-based systems, macOS, Windows, and Android.
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Wikipedia: RocksDB
Wikimedia FoundationPredecessor Of: RocksDB, Lead section
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RocksDB is a high performance embedded database for key-value data. It is a fork of Google's LevelDB optimized to exploit multi-core processors (CPUs), and make efficient use of fast storage, such as solid-state drives (SSD), for input/output (I/O) bound workloads.
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