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Benchmarks for various DBs under discussion:
http://symas.com/mdb/microbench/
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Douglas Roark via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On 2015/10/23 03:30, Tom Zander via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 Oct 2015 17:26:42 Jeff Garzik via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> >> It was noted that leveldb is unmaintained, and this is part of
> researching
> >> alternatives that are maintained and reliable.
> >
> > Apart from it being unmaintained, any links to what are problems with
> levelDB?
>
> While not exactly the most rigorous link,
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LevelDB#Bugs_and_Reliability seems like an
> okay place to start. One thing I can attest to is that, when Armory used
> LevelDB (0.8 - 0.92, IIRC), quite a few users had DB corruption issues,
> particularly on Windows. Even when a switch to LMDB occurred for 0.93,
> loads of complaints would come in from users whose LevelDB-based Core
> DBs would fail. I know that the guy who moved Armory over to LMDB would
> love to have more time in the day so that he could write a Core patch
> that does the same. It's a very sore spot for him.
>
> (FWIW, LMDB seems to work quite nicely, at least once you patch up the
> source a little bit. The latest version is also compatible with Core's
> cross-compiling scheme. I'd love to see it added to Core one day.)
>
> Doug
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<div dir=3D"ltr">Benchmarks for various DBs under discussion:<br><a href=3D=
"http://symas.com/mdb/microbench/">http://symas.com/mdb/microbench/</a><br>=
<br></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Mon,=
Oct 26, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Douglas Roark via bitcoin-dev <span dir=3D"ltr">=
<<a href=3D"mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org" target=3D"_bla=
nk">bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockqu=
ote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc s=
olid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=3D"">On 2015/10/23 03:30, Tom Zander via=
bitcoin-dev wrote:<br>
> On Thursday 22 Oct 2015 17:26:42 Jeff Garzik via bitcoin-dev wrote:<br=
>
>> It was noted that leveldb is unmaintained, and this is part of res=
earching<br>
>> alternatives that are maintained and reliable.<br>
><br>
> Apart from it being unmaintained, any links to what are problems with =
levelDB?<br>
<br>
</span>While not exactly the most rigorous link,<br>
<a href=3D"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LevelDB#Bugs_and_Reliability" rel=
=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LevelDB#Bug=
s_and_Reliability</a> seems like an<br>
okay place to start. One thing I can attest to is that, when Armory used<br=
>
LevelDB (0.8 - 0.92, IIRC), quite a few users had DB corruption issues,<br>
particularly on Windows. Even when a switch to LMDB occurred for 0.93,<br>
loads of complaints would come in from users whose LevelDB-based Core<br>
DBs would fail. I know that the guy who moved Armory over to LMDB would<br>
love to have more time in the day so that he could write a Core patch<br>
that does the same. It's a very sore spot for him.<br>
<br>
(FWIW, LMDB seems to work quite nicely, at least once you patch up the<br>
source a little bit. The latest version is also compatible with Core's<=
br>
cross-compiling scheme. I'd love to see it added to Core one day.)<br>
<br>
Doug<br>
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