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# rocksdb

> A Low-level Node.js RocksDB binding
> A low-level Node.js RocksDB binding. An [`abstract-leveldown`](https://github.com/Level/abstract-leveldown) compliant store.
[![level badge][level-badge]](https://github.com/Level/awesome)
[![npm](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/rocksdb.svg?label=&logo=npm)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/rocksdb)
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[![Backers on Open Collective](https://opencollective.com/level/backers/badge.svg?color=orange)](#backers)
[![Sponsors on Open Collective](https://opencollective.com/level/sponsors/badge.svg?color=orange)](#sponsors)

**If you are upgrading:** please see [UPGRADING.md](UPGRADING.md).
## Table of Contents

<details><summary>Click to expand</summary>

- [Introduction](#introduction)
- [Supported Platforms](#supported-platforms)
- [API](#api)
- [Contributing](#contributing)
- [Donate](#donate)
- [License](#license)

</details>

`rocksdb` is based on the [LevelDown](https://github.com/Level/leveldown) code, which was extracted from [LevelUP](https://github.com/Level/levelup) and now serves as a stand-alone binding for LevelDB. The native code in `rocksdb` is based on [Facebooks fork of LevelDB](https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb).
## Introduction

It is **strongly recommended** that you use LevelUP in preference to `rocksdb` unless you have measurable performance reasons to do so. LevelUP is optimised for usability and safety. Although we are working to improve the safety of the `rocksdb` interface it is still easy to crash your Node process if you don't do things in just the right way.
This module closely follows [`leveldown`](https://github.com/Level/leveldown) and implements the same API. The difference is that `leveldown` is a binding for [LevelDB](https://github.com/google/leveldb) while `rocksdb` is a binding for [RocksDB, Facebook's fork of LevelDB](https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb).

It is **strongly recommended** that you use `levelup` in preference to `rocksdb` unless you have measurable performance reasons to do so. `levelup` is optimized for usability and safety. Although we are working to improve the safety of the `rocksdb` interface it is still easy to crash your Node process if you don't do things in just the right way.

**If you are upgrading:** please see [UPGRADING.md](UPGRADING.md).

<a name="platforms"></a>
## Supported Platforms

We aim to support _at least_ Active LTS and Current Node.js releases, Electron 4.0.0, as well as any future Node.js and Electron releases thanks to [N-API](https://nodejs.org/api/n-api.html). Because N-API has an experimental status in node 6 and early 8.x releases, the minimum node version for `rocksdb` is `8.6.0`.

The `rocksdb` npm package ships with prebuilt binaries for popular 64-bit platforms ~~as well as ARM, Android and Alpine (musl)~~ and is known to work on:
The `rocksdb` npm package ships with prebuilt binaries for popular 64-bit platforms and is known to work on:

- **Linux** (including ARM platforms such as Raspberry Pi and Kindle)
- **Mac OS**
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If you don't want to use the prebuilt binary for the platform you are installing on, specify the `--build-from-source` flag when you install. If you are working on `rocksdb` itself and want to re-compile the C++ code it's enough to do `npm install`.

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## API

`rocksdb` implements the same API of [LevelDown](https://github.com/Level/leveldown#api).
Please refer to [`leveldown`](https://github.com/Level/leveldown#api) for API documentation. The `db.open(options, callback)` method of `rocksdb` has a few additional options:

- `readOnly` (boolean, default `false`): open database in read-only mode.

## Contributing

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"description": "A Node.js RocksDB binding, a backend for LevelUP",
"description": "A low-level Node.js RocksDB binding",
"license": "MIT",
"main": "leveldown.js",
"scripts": {
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