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RocksDB/LevelDB inspired key-value database in Go

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RocksDB/LevelDB inspired key-value database in Go

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tricked·Nov 29, 2024

I checked the go.mod and it seems to be importing a module named pebble by cockroachdb i assume that's where everything is stored https://github.com/cockroachdb/pebble

In Show HN: Vince – A self hosted alternative to Google Analytics

KAdot·Apr 15, 2024

The benchmark is not comparing apples to apples. prost is the most widely used Protobuf implementation in Rust, maintained by the Tokio organization. prost generates structs and serialization/deserialization code for you. easyproto according to GitHib Search is used only by two projects. easyproto provides primitives for serializing and deserializing Protobuf, and requires hand writing code to do both. A fair comparison would be prost vs google.golang.org/protobuf, or easyproto vs parts of quick-protobuf. In most cases you can make Go as fast as Rust, but from my experience writing performance-sensitive code in Go requires significantly larger time investment and overall requires deeper language expertise. Pebble (RocksDB replacement in Go by CockroachDB) is a good example of this, the codebase is littered with hand-inlined[1] functions,

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hand-unrolled loops and it's not[2] even using Go memory management for performance critical parts, it's using the C memory allocator and manual memory management. [prost]: https://github.com/tokio-rs/prost [easyproto]: https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/easyproto [google.golang.org/protobuf]: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf-go [quick-protobuf]: https://github.com/tafia/quick-protobuf [1]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/pebble/blob/c34894c46703fd823... [2]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/pebble/blob/master/docs/memor...

In Fivefold Slower Compared to Go? Optimizing Rust's Protobuf Decoding Performance

LINKIWI·Dec 22, 2022Submission

RocksDB/LevelDB inspired key-value database in Go

1 points · Open discussion

eatonphil·Aug 24, 2022

Judging from the precipitous decline in Badger commits since 20221 [0] and that the original/primary author is no longer with dgraph [1] or working on Badger, it may be worth looking at Cockroach's Pebble [2] instead. [0] https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph/graphs/contributors [1] https://manishrjain.com/about [2] https://github.com/cockroachdb/pebble

In What's the big deal about embedded key-value databases?

noncoml·Mar 6, 2022

Out of curiosity, why write https://github.com/cockroachdb/pebble and not just use https://github.com/dgraph-io/badger?

In CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database

karlding·Dec 23, 2020

CockroachDB also has Pebble [0], which is mentioned in their blog post [1] as a RocksDB replacement for their use-case. [0] https://github.com/cockroachdb/pebble [1] https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/pebble-rocksdb-kv-store/

In TerarkDB, ByteDance's RocksDB replacement

tyingq·Sep 15, 2020

There's some notes on that here: https://github.com/cockroachdb/pebble/blob/c39589c8cb36d95df...

In Pebble: A RocksDB Inspired Key-Value Store Written in Go

srathi·Jul 19, 2020Submission

RocksDB/LevelDB inspired key-value database in Go

4 points · Open discussion

irfansharif·Jul 12, 2020

It's not, not at all. We've actually gone as far as replacing RocksDB with https://github.com/cockroachdb/pebble/ by default now (and it's written in Go).

In Tour of Rust

irfansharif·Apr 13, 2020

> Note that neither CockroachDB [...] use Golang for their actual storage engine We do, now. We're looking to move away from RocksDB to https://github.com/cockroachdb/pebble/.

In Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go

irfansharif·Dec 25, 2019

> cdb went with Go but their storage layer ended up being rewritten with C, The storage layer was not rewritten in C, it's just RocksDB. There's ongoing work to use a custom built LSM store instead: https://github.com/cockroachdb/pebble

In How We Achieved 40K QPS and 20B Rows of Data in a Single Scale-Out Cluster

mountainview·Oct 19, 2019Submission

Pebble, RocksDB/LevelDB Inspired Key-Value Database in Go (WIP)

1 points · Open discussion