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Summary: We carry compression type and "cachable" variables for every block in the block cache, while they take well-known values. 8-byte is wasted for each block (2-byte for useful information but it takes 8 bytes because of padding). With this change, these two variables are removed. The cachable information is only useful in the process of reading the block. We use other information to infer from it. For compressed blocks, the compression type is a part of the block content itself so we can get it from there. Some code is slightly refactored so that the cachable information can flow better. Another change is to only use class BlockContents for compressed block, and narrow the class Block to only be used for uncompressed blocks, including blocks in compressed block cache. This can make the Block class less confusing. It also saves tens of bytes for each block in compressed block cache. Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/4650 Differential Revision: D12969070 Pulled By: siying fbshipit-source-id: 548b62724e9eb66993026429fd9c7c3acd1f95ed
RocksDB: A Persistent Key-Value Store for Flash and RAM Storage
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.