Description:
Fast key-value storage library, provides ordered mapping from string keys to string values.
Keys and values are arbitrary byte arrays.
Data stored sorted by key.
Supports a few basic operations: 1. Put(key, value) 2. Get(key) 3. Delete(key)
Stores keys and values in arbitrary byte arrays, and data is sorted by key. Supports batching writes, forward and backward integration.
Sequence of key value pairs in file are stored in sorted ordered and partitioned into a sequence of data blocks. The data blocks are formatted according to the code in block builder, before being optionally compressed.
General types of blocks: 1. Data blocks 2. Meta blocks - Stats meta blocks - Filter meta blocks 3. Index blocks - One entry per data block
A bunch of data blocks, a bunch a meta blocks.
The metablocks describe one entry for every other meta block where the key is the name of the meta block and the value is a BlockHandle pointing to meta block.