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**LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values.**
[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/google/leveldb.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/google/leveldb)
+[![Build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/g2j5j4rfkda6eyw5/branch/master?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/pwnall/leveldb)
Authors: Sanjay Ghemawat (sanjay@google.com) and Jeff Dean (jeff@google.com)
# Features
+
* Keys and values are arbitrary byte arrays.
* Data is stored sorted by key.
* Callers can provide a custom comparison function to override the sort order.
@@ -16,15 +18,55 @@ Authors: Sanjay Ghemawat (sanjay@google.com) and Jeff Dean (jeff@google.com)
* External activity (file system operations etc.) is relayed through a virtual interface so users can customize the operating system interactions.
# Documentation
- [LevelDB library documentation](https://github.com/google/leveldb/blob/master/doc/index.md) is online and bundled with the source code.
+ [LevelDB library documentation](https://github.com/google/leveldb/blob/master/doc/index.md) is online and bundled with the source code.
# Limitations
+
* This is not a SQL database. It does not have a relational data model, it does not support SQL queries, and it has no support for indexes.
* Only a single process (possibly multi-threaded) can access a particular database at a time.
* There is no client-server support builtin to the library. An application that needs such support will have to wrap their own server around the library.
+# Building
+
+This project supports [CMake](https://cmake.org/) out of the box.
+
+### Build for POSIX
+
+Quick start:
+
+```bash
+mkdir -p build && cd build
+cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .. && cmake --build .
+```
+
+### Building for Windows
+
+First generate the Visual Studio 2017 project/solution files:
+
+```cmd
+mkdir build
+cd build
+cmake -G "Visual Studio 15" ..
+```
+The default default will build for x86. For 64-bit run:
+
+```cmd
+cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 Win64" ..
+```
+
+To compile the Windows solution from the command-line:
+
+```cmd
+devenv /build Debug leveldb.sln
+```
+
+or open leveldb.sln in Visual Studio and build from within.
+
+Please see the CMake documentation and `CMakeLists.txt` for more advanced usage.
+
# Contributing to the leveldb Project
+
The leveldb project welcomes contributions. leveldb's primary goal is to be
a reliable and fast key/value store. Changes that are in line with the
features/limitations outlined above, and meet the requirements below,
@@ -32,10 +74,10 @@ will be considered.
Contribution requirements:
-1. **POSIX only**. We _generally_ will only accept changes that are both
- compiled, and tested on a POSIX platform - usually Linux. Very small
- changes will sometimes be accepted, but consider that more of an
- exception than the rule.
+1. **Tested platforms only**. We _generally_ will only accept changes for
+ platforms that are compiled and tested. This means POSIX (for Linux and
+ macOS) or Windows. Very small changes will sometimes be accepted, but
+ consider that more of an exception than the rule.
2. **Stable API**. We strive very hard to maintain a stable API. Changes that
require changes for projects using leveldb _might_ be rejected without
@@ -44,7 +86,16 @@ Contribution requirements:
3. **Tests**: All changes must be accompanied by a new (or changed) test, or
a sufficient explanation as to why a new (or changed) test is not required.
+4. **Consistent Style**: This project conforms to the
+ [Google C++ Style Guide](https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html).
+ To ensure your changes are properly formatted please run:
+
+ ```
+ clang-format -i --style=file <file>
+ ```
+
## Submitting a Pull Request
+
Before any pull request will be accepted the author must first sign a
Contributor License Agreement (CLA) at https://cla.developers.google.com/.
@@ -138,37 +189,37 @@ uncompressed blocks in memory, the read performance improves again:
See [doc/index.md](doc/index.md) for more explanation. See
[doc/impl.md](doc/impl.md) for a brief overview of the implementation.
-The public interface is in include/*.h. Callers should not include or
+The public interface is in include/leveldb/*.h. Callers should not include or
rely on the details of any other header files in this package. Those
internal APIs may be changed without warning.
Guide to header files:
-* **include/db.h**: Main interface to the DB: Start here
+* **include/leveldb/db.h**: Main interface to the DB: Start here.
-* **include/options.h**: Control over the behavior of an entire database,
+* **include/leveldb/options.h**: Control over the behavior of an entire database,
and also control over the behavior of individual reads and writes.
-* **include/comparator.h**: Abstraction for user-specified comparison function.
+* **include/leveldb/comparator.h**: Abstraction for user-specified comparison function.
If you want just bytewise comparison of keys, you can use the default
comparator, but clients can write their own comparator implementations if they
-want custom ordering (e.g. to handle different character encodings, etc.)
+want custom ordering (e.g. to handle different character encodings, etc.).
-* **include/iterator.h**: Interface for iterating over data. You can get
+* **include/leveldb/iterator.h**: Interface for iterating over data. You can get
an iterator from a DB object.
-* **include/write_batch.h**: Interface for atomically applying multiple
+* **include/leveldb/write_batch.h**: Interface for atomically applying multiple
updates to a database.
-* **include/slice.h**: A simple module for maintaining a pointer and a
+* **include/leveldb/slice.h**: A simple module for maintaining a pointer and a
length into some other byte array.
-* **include/status.h**: Status is returned from many of the public interfaces
+* **include/leveldb/status.h**: Status is returned from many of the public interfaces
and is used to report success and various kinds of errors.
-* **include/env.h**:
+* **include/leveldb/env.h**:
Abstraction of the OS environment. A posix implementation of this interface is
-in util/env_posix.cc
+in util/env_posix.cc.
-* **include/table.h, include/table_builder.h**: Lower-level modules that most
-clients probably won't use directly
+* **include/leveldb/table.h, include/leveldb/table_builder.h**: Lower-level modules that most
+clients probably won't use directly.