In September of 2020 we introduced our own homecooked replacement for RocksDB - a storage engine called Pebble. You can read about our reasons for the switch in this blog. We have tremendous respect and appreciation for RocksDB and continue to recommend it. … If, on a final exam at a database class, you asked students whether to build a database on a log-structured merge tree (LSM) or a BTree-base
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