Quick Install

Quick install for debian/ubuntu like linux distributions.

$ apt-get install build-essential libsnappy-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libgflags-dev
$ git clone https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb.git
$ cd rocksdb
$ make shared_lib
$ export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=${CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH}:`pwd`/include
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:`pwd`
$ export LIBRARY_PATH=${LIBRARY_PATH}:`pwd`

$ cd ../
$ apt-get install python-virtualenv python-dev
$ virtualenv pyrocks_test
$ cd pyrocks_test
$ . bin/active
$ pip install pyrocksdb

Quick Usage Guide

>>> import rocksdb
>>> db = rocksdb.DB("test.db", rocksdb.Options(create_if_missing=True))
>>> db.put(b'a', b'data')
>>> print db.get(b'a')
b'data'