linxGnu/grocksdb

RocksDB wrapper for Go. Support 11.x, 10.x, 9.x, 8.x, 7.x, 6.x, etc

Go

399

169 commits

updated Sep 7, 2026

See the code

README

grocksdb, RocksDB wrapper for Go

Go Report Card Coverage Status godoc

This is a Fork from tecbot/gorocksdb. I respect the author work and community contribution. The LICENSE still remains as upstream.

Why I made a patched clone instead of PR:

  • Supports almost C API (unlike upstream). Catching up with latest version of Rocksdb as promise.
  • This fork contains no defer in codebase (my side project requires as less overhead as possible). This introduces loose convention of how/when to free c-mem, thus break the rule of tecbot/gorocksdb.

Install

Prerequisite

  • librocksdb
  • libsnappy
  • libz
  • liblz4
  • libzstd
  • libbz2 (optional)

Please follow this guide: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/blob/master/INSTALL.md to build above libs.

Build

After installing both rocksdb and grocksdb, you can build your app using the following commands:

CGO_CFLAGS="-I/path/to/rocksdb/include" \
CGO_LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/rocksdb -lrocksdb -lstdc++ -lm -lz -lsnappy -llz4 -lzstd" \
  go build

Or just:

go build // if prerequisites are in linker paths

If your rocksdb was linked with bz2:

CGO_LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/rocksdb -lrocksdb -lstdc++ -lm -lz -lsnappy -llz4 -lzstd -lbz2" \
  go build

Customize the build flags

Currently, the default build flags without specifying CGO_LDFLAGS or the corresponding environment variables are -lrocksdb -pthread -lstdc++ -ldl -lm -lzstd -llz4 -lz -lsnappy

If you want to customize the build flags:

  1. Use -tags grocksdb_clean_link to create a cleaner set of flags and build it based on the cleaner flag. The base build flags after using the tag are -lrocksdb -pthread -lstdc++ -ldl.
CGO_LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/rocksdb -lzstd" go build -tags grocksdb_clean_link
  1. Use -tags grocksdb_no_link to ignore the build flags provided by the library and build it fully based on the custom flags.
CGO_LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/rocksdb -lrocksdb -lstdc++ -lzstd -llz4" go build -tags grocksdb_clean_link

Usage

See also: doc

API Support

Almost C API, excepts:

  • get_db_identity
  • putv/mergev/deletev/delete_rangev
  • compaction_filter/compaction_filter_factory/compaction_filter_context
  • transactiondb_property_value/transactiondb_property_int
  • optimistictransactiondb_property_value/optimistictransactiondb_property_int
  • writebatch_update_timestamps/writebatch_wi_update_timestamps/writebatch_iterate_cf
  • approximate_sizes_cf_with_flags
  • logger_create_callback_logger
  • get_into_buffer/get_into_buffer_cf
  • event listeners:
    • flushjobinfo*
    • compactionjobinfo*
    • subcompactionjobinfo*
    • externalfileingestioninfo*
    • writestallinfo*
    • memtableinfo*
    • onbackground_error_cb
  • compactionservice
  • rocksdb_open_and_compact*
  • rocksdb_writebatch_iterate*
  • rocksdb_compaction_service_options_override_t
  • rocksdb_file_checksum_gen_factory_t
  • rocksdb_sst_partitioner_factory_t
  • rocksdb_table_properties_collector_factory_t
embedded
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go-binding
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rocksdb
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static-library
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linxGnu

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linxGnu/grocksdb

RocksDB wrapper for Go. Support 11.x, 10.x, 9.x, 8.x, 7.x, 6.x, etc

Go

399

169 commits

updated Sep 7, 2026

See the code

README

grocksdb, RocksDB wrapper for Go

Go Report Card Coverage Status godoc

This is a Fork from tecbot/gorocksdb. I respect the author work and community contribution. The LICENSE still remains as upstream.

Why I made a patched clone instead of PR:

  • Supports almost C API (unlike upstream). Catching up with latest version of Rocksdb as promise.
  • This fork contains no defer in codebase (my side project requires as less overhead as possible). This introduces loose convention of how/when to free c-mem, thus break the rule of tecbot/gorocksdb.

Install

Prerequisite

  • librocksdb
  • libsnappy
  • libz
  • liblz4
  • libzstd
  • libbz2 (optional)

Please follow this guide: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/blob/master/INSTALL.md to build above libs.

Build

After installing both rocksdb and grocksdb, you can build your app using the following commands:

CGO_CFLAGS="-I/path/to/rocksdb/include" \
CGO_LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/rocksdb -lrocksdb -lstdc++ -lm -lz -lsnappy -llz4 -lzstd" \
  go build

Or just:

go build // if prerequisites are in linker paths

If your rocksdb was linked with bz2:

CGO_LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/rocksdb -lrocksdb -lstdc++ -lm -lz -lsnappy -llz4 -lzstd -lbz2" \
  go build

Customize the build flags

Currently, the default build flags without specifying CGO_LDFLAGS or the corresponding environment variables are -lrocksdb -pthread -lstdc++ -ldl -lm -lzstd -llz4 -lz -lsnappy

If you want to customize the build flags:

  1. Use -tags grocksdb_clean_link to create a cleaner set of flags and build it based on the cleaner flag. The base build flags after using the tag are -lrocksdb -pthread -lstdc++ -ldl.
CGO_LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/rocksdb -lzstd" go build -tags grocksdb_clean_link
  1. Use -tags grocksdb_no_link to ignore the build flags provided by the library and build it fully based on the custom flags.
CGO_LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/rocksdb -lrocksdb -lstdc++ -lzstd -llz4" go build -tags grocksdb_clean_link

Usage

See also: doc

API Support

Almost C API, excepts:

  • get_db_identity
  • putv/mergev/deletev/delete_rangev
  • compaction_filter/compaction_filter_factory/compaction_filter_context
  • transactiondb_property_value/transactiondb_property_int
  • optimistictransactiondb_property_value/optimistictransactiondb_property_int
  • writebatch_update_timestamps/writebatch_wi_update_timestamps/writebatch_iterate_cf
  • approximate_sizes_cf_with_flags
  • logger_create_callback_logger
  • get_into_buffer/get_into_buffer_cf
  • event listeners:
    • flushjobinfo*
    • compactionjobinfo*
    • subcompactionjobinfo*
    • externalfileingestioninfo*
    • writestallinfo*
    • memtableinfo*
    • onbackground_error_cb
  • compactionservice
  • rocksdb_open_and_compact*
  • rocksdb_writebatch_iterate*
  • rocksdb_compaction_service_options_override_t
  • rocksdb_file_checksum_gen_factory_t
  • rocksdb_sst_partitioner_factory_t
  • rocksdb_table_properties_collector_factory_t
embedded
go
go-binding
golang
no-defer
rocksdb
static
static-library
wrapper

Contributors

linxGnu

147 commits

Gezort

1 commits

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