rocksdb/README.md
Fosco Marotto 3462c94be7 Add dual-license info to README.md
Summary:
From #3417 and after talking to both GitHub and our open source legal team, the recommended approach was to explicitly state the dual-license in the readme.

Changing the license files to accommodate the auto-detection is too much of a pain, would involve editing every code file header.
Closes https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/3541

Differential Revision: D7171111

Pulled By: gfosco

fbshipit-source-id: 0ee7b134446015228249efe991fa5e76526ca0b0
2018-03-06 12:43:51 -08:00

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RocksDB: A Persistent Key-Value Store for Flash and RAM Storage

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RocksDB is developed and maintained by Facebook Database Engineering Team. It is built on earlier work on LevelDB by Sanjay Ghemawat (sanjay@google.com) and Jeff Dean (jeff@google.com)

This code is a library that forms the core building block for a fast key value server, especially suited for storing data on flash drives. It has a Log-Structured-Merge-Database (LSM) design with flexible tradeoffs between Write-Amplification-Factor (WAF), Read-Amplification-Factor (RAF) and Space-Amplification-Factor (SAF). It has multi-threaded compactions, making it specially suitable for storing multiple terabytes of data in a single database.

Start with example usage here: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/tree/master/examples

See the github wiki for more explanation.

The public interface is in include/. Callers should not include or rely on the details of any other header files in this package. Those internal APIs may be changed without warning.

Design discussions are conducted in https://www.facebook.com/groups/rocksdb.dev/

License

RocksDB is dual-licensed under both the GPLv2 (found in the COPYING file in the root directory) and Apache 2.0 License (found in the LICENSE.Apache file in the root directory). You may select, at your option, one of the above-listed licenses.