On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Sean Lynch wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 1:23 AM Lucas Betschart via bitcoin-dev < > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > >> Facebook has a LevelDB fork which is maintained. >> It's called RocksDB and the API seems to be nearly the same as for >> LevelDB, thus maybe easy to replace: http://rocksdb.org/ >> https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb >> >> Although I don't know if we might have some negative effects for our >> use-case since RocksDB was optimized for big databases running on multiple >> cores. >> > > While RocksDB is pretty decent, note that it's optimized for flash. Not > sure how well it will work on spinning disks. > That's OK for our purposes. We have a huge database which already incentivized having zero seek time.