LevelDB and Node An Introduction by Rod Vagg / tw:@rvagg / gh:rvagg / bl:http://r.va.gg LevelDB in a Nutshell Open-source, embedded key/value store by Google Sorted by keys Values are compressed with Snappy Basic operations: Get(), Put(), Del() Atomic Batch() Bi-directional iterators Basic architecture LSM-tree Writes go straight into a log / memtable Log is flushed to 2MB string sorted table (SST