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Everything about LevelDB

Open-source key-value store by Google

LevelDB is an open-source on-disk key-value store written by Google fellows Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat. Inspired by Bigtable, LevelDB source code is hosted on GitHub under the New BSD License and has been ported to a variety of Unix-based systems, macOS, Windows, and Android. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

Read the overview: LevelDBA 5-minute orientation
Pick up a classic book: Getting Started with LevelDBThe most-reprinted book on the subject
Read the landmark paper: An Empirical Study of Segmented Linear Regression Search in LevelDBCited 5 times
Go sideways: BigtableA closely related topic
Go sideways: Sanjay GhemawatA closely related topic

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🗂️ The subject at a glance

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

An Empirical Study of Segmented Linear Regression Search in LevelDB

Agung Rahmat Ramadhan, Min-guk Choi, Yoojin Chung · 2023 · Electronics · 5 citations
A Log-Structured File System Based on LevelDB

Zhi Hao Wu · 2014 · Applied Mechanics and Materials · 1 citations
PROAD: Boosting Caffe Training via improving LevelDB I/O performance with Parallel Read, Out-of-Order Optimization, and Adaptive Design

Yubiao Pan, Ailing Tian, Huizhen Zhang · 2026 · Parallel Computing · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

📕Getting Started with LevelDBAndy Dent · 2013

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