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.