The ldb command line tool offers multiple data access and database admin commands. Some examples are listed below. For more information, please consult the help message displayed when running ldb without any arguments and the unit tests in tools/ldb_test.py.
Example data access sequence:
$./ldb --db=/tmp/test_db --create_if_missing put a1 b1
OK
$ ./ldb --db=/tmp/test_db get a1
b1
$ ./ldb --db=/tmp/test_db get a2
Failed: NotFound:
$ ./ldb --db=/tmp/test_db scan
a1 : b1
$ ./ldb --db=/tmp/test_db scan --hex
0x6131 : 0x6231
$ ./ldb --db=/tmp/test_db put --key_hex 0x6132 b2
OK
$ ./ldb --db=/tmp/test_db scan
a1 : b1
a2 : b2
$ ./ldb --db=/tmp/test_db get --value_hex a2
0x6232
$ ./ldb --db=/tmp/test_db get --hex 0x6131
0x6231
$ ./ldb --db=/tmp/test_db batchput a3 b3 a4 b4
OK
$ ./ldb --db=/tmp/test_db scan
a1 : b1
a2 : b2
a3 : b3
a4 : b4
$ ./ldb --db=/tmp/test_db batchput "multiple words key" "multiple words value"
OK
$ ./ldb --db=/tmp/test_db scan
Created bg thread 0x7f4a1dbff700
a1 : b1
a2 : b2
a3 : b3
a4 : b4
multiple words key : multiple words value
To dump an existing leveldb database in HEX:
$ ./ldb --db=/tmp/test_db dump --hex > /tmp/dbdump
To load the dumped HEX format data to a new leveldb database:
$ cat /tmp/dbdump | ./ldb --db=/tmp/test_db_new load --hex --compression_type=bzip2 --block_size=65536 --create_if_missing --disable_wal
To compact an existing leveldb database:
$ ./ldb --db=/tmp/test_db_new compact --compression_type=bzip2 --block_size=65536
You can specify command line --column_family=<string>
for which column family your query will be against.
--try_load_options
will use try to option file in the DB to open the DB. It is a good idea to always try to have this option on when you operate the DB. If you open the DB with default options, it may mess up LSM-tree structure which can't be recovered automatically.
sst_dump tool can be used to gain insights about a specific SST file. There are multiple operations that sst_dump can execute on a SST file.
$ ./sst_dump
file or directory must be specified.
sst_dump --file=<data_dir_OR_sst_file> [--command=check|scan|raw]
--file=<data_dir_OR_sst_file>
Path to SST file or directory containing SST files
--command=check|scan|raw
check: Iterate over entries in files but dont print anything except if an error is encounterd (default command)
scan: Iterate over entries in files and print them to screen
raw: Dump all the table contents to <file_name>_dump.txt
--output_hex
Can be combined with scan command to print the keys and values in Hex
--from=<user_key>
Key to start reading from when executing check|scan
--to=<user_key>
Key to stop reading at when executing check|scan
--prefix=<user_key>
Returns all keys with this prefix when executing check|scan
Cannot be used in conjunction with --from
--read_num=<num>
Maximum number of entries to read when executing check|scan
--verify_checksum
Verify file checksum when executing check|scan
--input_key_hex
Can be combined with --from and --to to indicate that these values are encoded in Hex
--show_properties
Print table properties after iterating over the file
--show_compression_sizes
Independent command that will recreate the SST file using 16K block size with different
compressions and report the size of the file using such compression
--set_block_size=<block_size>
Can be combined with --show_compression_sizes to set the block size that will be used
when trying different compression algorithms
--parse_internal_key=<0xKEY>
Convenience option to parse an internal key on the command line. Dumps the
internal key in hex format {'key' @ SN: type}
./sst_dump --file=/path/to/sst/000829.sst --command=raw
This command will generate a txt file named /path/to/sst/000829_dump.txt This file will contain all Index blocks and data blocks encoded in Hex. It will also contain information like table properties, footer details and meta index details
./sst_dump --file=/path/to/sst/000829.sst --command=scan --read_num=5
This command will print the first 5 keys in the SST file to the screen. the output may look like this
'Key1' @ 5: 1 => Value1
'Key2' @ 2: 1 => Value2
'Key3' @ 4: 1 => Value3
'Key4' @ 3: 1 => Value4
'Key5' @ 1: 1 => Value5
The output can be interpreted like this
'<key>' @ <sequence number>: <type> => <value>
Please notice that if your key have non-ascii characters it will be hard to print it on screen, in this case it's a good idea to use --output_hex like this
./sst_dump --file=/path/to/sst/000829.sst --command=scan --read_num=5 --output_hex
You can also specify where do you want to start reading from and where do you want to stop by using --from and --to like this
./sst_dump --file=/path/to/sst/000829.sst --command=scan --from="key2" --to="key4"
You can pass --from and --to using hexadecimal as well by using --input_key_hex
./sst_dump --file=/path/to/sst/000829.sst --command=scan --from="0x6B657932" --to="0x6B657934" --input_key_hex
./sst_dump --file=/path/to/sst/000829.sst --command=check --verify_checksum
This command will Iterate over all entries in the SST file but wont print any thing except if it encountered a problem in the SST file. It will also verify the checksum
./sst_dump --file=/path/to/sst/000829.sst --show_properties
This command will read the SST file properties and print them, output may look like this
from [] to []
Process /path/to/sst/000829.sst
Sst file format: block-based
Table Properties:
------------------------------
# data blocks: 26541
# entries: 2283572
raw key size: 264639191
raw average key size: 115.888262
raw value size: 26378342
raw average value size: 11.551351
data block size: 67110160
index block size: 3620969
filter block size: 0
(estimated) table size: 70731129
filter policy name: N/A
# deleted keys: 571272
sst_dump can be used to check the size of the file under different compression algorithms.
./sst_dump --file=/path/to/sst/000829.sst --show_compression_sizes
By using --show_compression_sizes sst_dump will recreate the SST file in memory using different compression algorithms and report the size, output may look like this
from [] to []
Process /path/to/sst/000829.sst
Sst file format: block-based
Block Size: 16384
Compression: kNoCompression Size: 103974700
Compression: kSnappyCompression Size: 103906223
Compression: kZlibCompression Size: 80602892
Compression: kBZip2Compression Size: 76250777
Compression: kLZ4Compression Size: 103905572
Compression: kLZ4HCCompression Size: 97234828
Compression: kZSTDNotFinalCompression Size: 79821573
These files are created in memory and they are generated with block size of 16KB, the block size can be change by using --set_block_size