electrs Rocksdb version

Just a question, but if I understand electrs will only work with an old version of rocksdb 7.8.3-2. I was thinking of trying out electrs on a different OS type then what the docs describe (debian or ubuntu). Building an older version of rocksdb shouldn't be too hard (fingers crossed) but just wondering the rational.

May 10 '24 04:05 yancyribbens

I guess this is only an issue with dynamic linking.

May 13 '24 01:05 yancyribbens

After a little more digging, I think the docs might be out of date. It seems that at least rocksdb 7.9.2 is supported https://github.com/romanz/rust-rocksdb/commit/c1314a3d5942cf19975a3e1058cd2fa418bb1837

May 13 '24 03:05 yancyribbens

In this project, we are using the same RocksDB version that is being used in the current Debian stable release, to allow dynamic linking: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/librocksdb-dev -> 7.8.3

May 24 '24 11:05 romanz

In theory, it's possible to update the RocksDB dependency and compile it from source - but currently RocksDB 7.8.3 is good enough for electrs.

May 24 '24 11:05 romanz

Actually, if there was a stable enough pure Rust key-value store, with performance characteristics similar to RocksDB, I would prefer switching to it -> https://github.com/romanz/electrs/issues/201

May 24 '24 11:05 romanz

hmm yeah sled would be cool to try

May 24 '24 15:05 yancyribbens

If the Rust wrapper didn't break API we could've just used ranged versions and allow linking any version from a reasonable range. The users would just need to update Cargo.lock.

Jun 17 '24 19:06 Kixunil