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What's the big deal about key-value databases like FoundationDB and RocksDB?

Phil Eaton · published 23 August 2022

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n8z.dev

Keys and Values Are All You Need Read at the source ↗

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http://rocksdb.org/

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https://github.com/google/leveldb

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https://github.com/cockroachdb/pebble

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https://www.foundationdb.org/

foundationdb.org

https://tikv.org/

tikv.org

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/storage-engines.html

dev.mysql.com

https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/core/storage-engines/

mongodb.com

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/tableam.html

postgresql.org

https://github.com/orioledb/orioledb

github.com

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2021/03/06/citus-10-columnar-compression-for-postgres/

citusdata.com

http://www.benstopford.com/2015/02/14/log-structured-merge-trees/

benstopford.com

https://github.com/apple/foundationdb

github.com

https://github.com/tikv/tikv

github.com

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/pebble-rocksdb-kv-store/

cockroachlabs.com

https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/tech-notes/encoding.md

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https://twitter.com/justinjaffray

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Let's build a distributed Postgres proof of concept Read at the source ↗

notes.eatonphil.com

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Files are hard Read at the source ↗

danluu.com

https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server-for-mongodb/3.4/mongorocks.html

percona.com

http://myrocks.io/

myrocks.io

https://www.cockroachlabs.com

cockroachlabs.com

https://www.yugabyte.com/blog/how-we-built-a-high-performance-document-store-on-rocksdb/

yugabyte.com

https://www.gridgain.com/resources/blog/apache-ignite-3-alpha-3-apache-calcite-raft-and-lsm-tree

gridgain.com

https://engineering.fb.com/2021/08/06/core-data/zippydb/

engineering.fb.com

https://redis.com/blog/hood-redis-enterprise-flash-database-architecture/

redis.com

https://thenewstack.io/instagram-supercharges-cassandra-pluggable-rocksdb-storage-engine/

thenewstack.io

https://www.consul.io/

consul.io

etcd versus other key-value stores Read at the source ↗

etcd.io

https://www.snowflake.com/blog/how-foundationdb-powers-snowflake-metadata-forward/

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https://en.pingcap.com/

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https://lobste.rs/s/avljlh/what_s_big_deal_about_embedded_key_value

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https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eis

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https://t.co/H4SouStZHk

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