RocksDB v4.1.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2015-10-08 // over 8 years ago
  • ๐Ÿ†• New Features

    • โž• Added single delete operation as a more efficient way to delete keys that have not been overwritten.
    • Added experimental AddFile() to DB interface that allow users to add files created by SstFileWriter into an empty Database, see include/rocksdb/sst_file_writer.h and DB::AddFile() for more info.
    • โž• Added support for opening SST files with .ldb suffix which enables opening LevelDB databases.
    • ๐Ÿ”€ CompactionFilter now supports filtering of merge operands and merge results.

    Public API Changes

    • โž• Added SingleDelete() to the DB interface.
    • โž• Added AddFile() to DB interface.
    • โž• Added SstFileWriter class.
    • ๐Ÿ”€ CompactionFilter has a new method FilterMergeOperand() that RocksDB applies to every merge operand during compaction to decide whether to filter the operand.
    • ๐Ÿšš We removed CompactionFilterV2 interfaces from include/rocksdb/compaction_filter.h. The functionality was deprecated already in version 3.13.