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Contributors
============
Alexey Naumov <alexey.naumov@gmail.com>
Chris Mikkelson <cmikk@qwest.net>
Claude Brisson <claude.brisson@gmail.com>
David Barbour <dmbarbour@gmail.com>
David Wilson <dw@botanicus.net>
dreamsxin <dreamsxin@126.com>
Hallvard Furuseth <hallvard@openldap.org>, <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Heiko Becker <heirecka@exherbo.org>
Howard Chu <hyc@openldap.org>, <hyc@symas.com>
Ignacio Casal Quinteiro <ignacio.casal@nice-software.com>
James Rouzier <rouzier@gmail.com>
Jean-Christophe DUBOIS <jcd@tribudubois.net>
John Hewson <john@jahewson.com>
Klaus Malorny <klaus.malorny@knipp.de>
Kurt Zeilenga <kurt.zeilenga@isode.com>
Leonid Yuriev <leo@yuriev.ru>, <lyuryev@ptsecurity.com>
Lorenz Bauer <lmb@cloudflare.com>
Luke Yeager <lyeager@nvidia.com>
Martin Hedenfalk <martin@bzero.se>
Ondrej Kuznik <ondrej.kuznik@acision.com>
Orivej Desh <orivej@gmx.fr>
Oskari Timperi <oskari.timperi@iki.fi>
Pavel Medvedev <pmedvedev@gmail.com>
Philipp Storz <philipp.storz@bareos.com>
Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@openldap.org>
Salvador Ortiz <sog@msg.com.mx>
Sebastien Launay <sebastien@slaunay.fr>
Vladimir Romanov <vromanov@gmail.com>
Zano Foundation <crypto.sowle@gmail.com>
- Alexey Naumov <alexey.naumov@gmail.com>
- Chris Mikkelson <cmikk@qwest.net>
- Claude Brisson <claude.brisson@gmail.com>
- David Barbour <dmbarbour@gmail.com>
- David Wilson <dw@botanicus.net>
- dreamsxin <dreamsxin@126.com>
- Hallvard Furuseth <hallvard@openldap.org>, <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
- Heiko Becker <heirecka@exherbo.org>
- Howard Chu <hyc@openldap.org>, <hyc@symas.com>
- Ignacio Casal Quinteiro <ignacio.casal@nice-software.com>
- James Rouzier <rouzier@gmail.com>
- Jean-Christophe DUBOIS <jcd@tribudubois.net>
- John Hewson <john@jahewson.com>
- Klaus Malorny <klaus.malorny@knipp.de>
- Kurt Zeilenga <kurt.zeilenga@isode.com>
- Leonid Yuriev <leo@yuriev.ru>, <lyuryev@ptsecurity.com>
- Lorenz Bauer <lmb@cloudflare.com>
- Luke Yeager <lyeager@nvidia.com>
- Martin Hedenfalk <martin@bzero.se>
- Ondrej Kuznik <ondrej.kuznik@acision.com>
- Orivej Desh <orivej@gmx.fr>
- Oskari Timperi <oskari.timperi@iki.fi>
- Pavel Medvedev <pmedvedev@gmail.com>
- Philipp Storz <philipp.storz@bareos.com>
- Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@openldap.org>
- Salvador Ortiz <sog@msg.com.mx>
- Sebastien Launay <sebastien@slaunay.fr>
- Vladimir Romanov <vromanov@gmail.com>
- Zano Foundation <crypto.sowle@gmail.com>

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@ -254,8 +254,24 @@ docs/Doxyfile: docs/Doxyfile.in src/version.c
-e "s|\$${MDBX_VERSION_REVISION}|$(MDBX_GIT_REVISION)|" \
docs/Doxyfile.in > $@
doxygen: docs/Doxyfile mdbx.h LICENSE AUTHORS
rm -rf docs/html && mkdir -p docs/html && cp LICENSE AUTHORS docs/html/ && doxygen docs/Doxyfile
define md-extract-section
docs/__$(1).md: $(2)
sed -n '/<!-- section-begin $(1) -->/,/<!-- section-end -->/p' $$< > $$@ && test -s $$@
endef
$(foreach section,overview mithril characteristics improvements history usage performance bindings,$(eval $(call md-extract-section,$(section),README.md)))
docs/overall.md: docs/__overview.md docs/_toc.md docs/__mithril.md docs/__history.md AUTHORS LICENSE
echo -e "\\mainpage Overall\n\\section brief Brief" | cat - $(filter %.md, $?) > $@ && echo -e "\n\n\nLicense\n=======\n" | cat AUTHORS - LICENSE >> $@
docs/intro.md: docs/_preface.md docs/__characteristics.md docs/__improvements.md docs/_restrictions.md docs/__performance.md
cat $? | sed 's/^Performance comparison$$/Performance comparison {#performance}/' > $@
docs/usage.md: docs/__usage.md docs/_starting.md docs/__bindings.md
echo -e "\\page usage Usage\n\\section getting Getting the libmdbx" | cat - $? | sed 's/^Bindings$$/Bindings {#bindings}/' > $@
doxygen: docs/Doxyfile docs/overall.md docs/intro.md docs/usage.md mdbx.h ChangeLog.md
rm -rf docs/html && cp mdbx.h ChangeLog.md docs/ && (cd docs && doxygen Doxyfile)
.PHONY: dist release-assets
dist: libmdbx-sources-$(MDBX_VERSION_SUFFIX).tar.gz $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))

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<!-- Required extensions: pymdownx.betterem, pymdownx.tilde, pymdownx.emoji, pymdownx.tasklist, pymdownx.superfences -->
libmdbx
=======
========
<!-- section-begin overview -->
_libmdbx_ is an extremely fast, compact, powerful, embedded,
transactional [key-value store](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key-value_database)
database, with [permissive license](LICENSE).
transactional [key-value database](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key-value_database),
with [permissive license](./LICENSE).
_MDBX_ has a specific set of properties and capabilities,
focused on creating unique lightweight solutions with extraordinary performance.
focused on creating unique lightweight solutions.
1. Allows **a swarm of multi-threaded processes to
[ACID]((https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID))ly read and update** several
@ -43,13 +44,15 @@ neglected in favour of write performance.
7. Supports Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS, FreeBSD, DragonFly, Solaris,
OpenSolaris, OpenIndiana, NetBSD, OpenBSD and other systems compliant with
**POSIX.1-2008**.
<!-- section-end -->
Historically, _MDBX_ is a deeply revised and extended descendant of the amazing
[Lightning Memory-Mapped Database](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Memory-Mapped_Database).
_MDBX_ inherits all benefits from _LMDB_, but resolves some issues and adds [a set of improvements](#improvements-beyond-lmdb).
<!-- section-begin mithril -->
The next version is under active non-public development from scratch and will be
released as **_MithrilDB_** and `libmithrildb` for libraries & packages.
released as _**MithrilDB**_ and `libmithrildb` for libraries & packages.
Admittedly mythical [Mithril](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithril) is
resembling silver but being stronger and lighter than steel. Therefore
_MithrilDB_ is a rightly relevant name.
@ -58,6 +61,7 @@ _MithrilDB_ is a rightly relevant name.
> License](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0). The goal of this
> revolution is to provide a clearer and robust API, add more features and
> new valuable properties of the database.
<!-- section-end -->
[![https://t.me/libmdbx](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/erthink/libmdbx/img/telegram.png)](https://t.me/libmdbx)
[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/erthink/libmdbx.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/erthink/libmdbx)
@ -71,10 +75,10 @@ _MithrilDB_ is a rightly relevant name.
-----
## Table of Contents
- [Overview](#overview)
- [Characteristics](#characteristics)
- [Features](#features)
- [Limitations](#limitations)
- [Caveats & Gotchas](#caveats--gotchas)
- [Gotchas](#gotchas)
- [Comparison with other databases](#comparison-with-other-databases)
- [Improvements beyond LMDB](#improvements-beyond-lmdb)
- [History & Acknowledgments](#history)
@ -90,7 +94,9 @@ _MithrilDB_ is a rightly relevant name.
- [Async-write mode](#async-write-mode)
- [Cost comparison](#cost-comparison)
# Overview
# Characteristics
<!-- section-begin characteristics -->
## Features
@ -146,7 +152,7 @@ transaction journal. No crash recovery needed. No maintenance is required.
- **Database size**: up to `2147483648` pages (8 [TiB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tebibyte) for default 4K pagesize, 128 [TiB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tebibyte) for 64K pagesize).
- **Maximum sub-databases**: `32765`.
## Caveats & Gotchas
## Gotchas
1. There cannot be more than one writer at a time, i.e. no more than one write transaction at a time.
@ -165,11 +171,14 @@ so you should reconsider using brute force techniques and double check your code
On the one hand, in the case of MDBX, a simple linear search may be more profitable than complex indexes.
On the other hand, if you make something suboptimally, you can notice detrimentally only on sufficiently large data.
### Comparison with other databases
## Comparison with other databases
For now please refer to [chapter of "BoltDB comparison with other
databases"](https://github.com/coreos/bbolt#comparison-with-other-databases)
which is also (mostly) applicable to _libmdbx_.
<!-- section-end -->
<!-- section-begin improvements -->
Improvements beyond LMDB
========================
@ -180,7 +189,7 @@ out-of-the-box, not silently and catastrophically break down. The list
below is pruned down to the improvements most notable and obvious from
the user's point of view.
### Added Features:
## Added Features
1. Keys could be more than 2 times longer than _LMDB_.
> For DB with default page size _libmdbx_ support keys up to 1300 bytes
@ -230,7 +239,7 @@ and/or optimize query execution plans.
12. Support for opening databases in the exclusive mode, including on a network share.
### Added Abilities:
## Added Abilities
1. Zero-length for keys and values.
@ -248,7 +257,7 @@ pair, to the first, to the last, or not set to anything.
> _libmdbx_ allows one _at once_ with getting previous value
> and addressing the particular item from multi-value with the same key.
### Other fixes and specifics:
## Other fixes and specifics
1. Fixed more than 10 significant errors, in particular: page leaks, wrong sub-database statistics, segfault in several conditions, nonoptimal page merge strategy, updating an existing record with a change in data size (including for multimap), etc.
@ -282,7 +291,13 @@ against incompetent user actions (aka
_libmdbx_ may be a little lag in performance tests from LMDB where the
named mutexes are used.
### History
<!-- section-end -->
<!-- section-begin history -->
# History
Historically, _MDBX_ is a deeply revised and extended descendant of the
[Lightning Memory-Mapped Database](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Memory-Mapped_Database).
At first the development was carried out within the
[ReOpenLDAP](https://github.com/erthink/ReOpenLDAP) project. About a
year later _libmdbx_ was separated into a standalone project, which was
@ -292,18 +307,26 @@ conference](http://www.highload.ru/2015/abstracts/1831.html).
Since 2017 _libmdbx_ is used in [Fast Positive Tables](https://github.com/erthink/libfpta),
and development is funded by [Positive Technologies](https://www.ptsecurity.com).
### Acknowledgments
## Acknowledgments
Howard Chu <hyc@openldap.org> is the author of LMDB, from which
originated the MDBX in 2015.
Martin Hedenfalk <martin@bzero.se> is the author of `btree.c` code, which
was used to begin development of LMDB.
<!-- section-end -->
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Usage
=====
<!-- section-begin usage -->
Currently, libmdbx is only available in a
[source code](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code) form.
Packages support for common Linux distributions is planned in the future,
since release the version 1.0.
## Source code embedding
_libmdbx_ provides two official ways for integration in source code form:
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> This allows you to build as _libmdbx_ and testing tool.
> On the other hand, this way requires you to pull git tags, and use C++11 compiler for test tool.
**_Please, avoid using any other techniques._** Otherwise, at least
_**Please, avoid using any other techniques.**_ Otherwise, at least
don't ask for support and don't name such chimeras `libmdbx`.
The amalgamated source code could be created from the original clone of git
@ -434,21 +457,30 @@ To build _libmdbx_ for iOS, we recommend using CMake with the
"[toolchain file](https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/variable/CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE.html)"
from the [ios-cmake](https://github.com/leetal/ios-cmake) project.
<!-- section-end -->
## API description
For more information and API description see the [mdbx.h](mdbx.h) header.
Please do not hesitate to point out errors in the documentation,
including creating [PR](https://help.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/proposing-changes-to-your-work-with-pull-requests) with corrections and improvements.
## Bindings
<!-- section-begin bindings -->
| Runtime | GitHub | Author |
| -------- | ------ | ------ |
| Rust | [mdbx-rs](https://github.com/Kerollmops/mdbx-rs) | [@Kerollmops](https://github.com/Kerollmops) |
| Java | [mdbxjni](https://github.com/castortech/mdbxjni) | [Castor Technologies](https://castortech.com/) |
| .NET | [mdbx.NET](https://github.com/wangjia184/mdbx.NET) | [Jerry Wang](https://github.com/wangjia184) |
Bindings
========
| Runtime | GitHub | Author |
| ------- | ------ | ------ |
| Rust | [mdbx-rs](https://github.com/Kerollmops/mdbx-rs) | [Clément Renault](https://github.com/Kerollmops) |
| Java | [mdbxjni](https://github.com/castortech/mdbxjni) | [Castor Technologies](https://castortech.com/) |
| .NET | [mdbx.NET](https://github.com/wangjia184/mdbx.NET) | [Jerry Wang](https://github.com/wangjia184) |
<!-- section-end -->
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<!-- section-begin performance -->
Performance comparison
======================
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![Comparison #6: Cost comparison](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/erthink/libmdbx/img/perf-slide-6.png)
<!-- section-end -->
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#### This is a mirror of the origin repository that was moved to [abf.io](https://abf.io/erthink/) because of discriminatory restrictions for Russian Crimea.

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# the deprecated list. This list is created by putting \deprecated commands in
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# sections, marked by \if <section_label> ... \endif and \cond <section_label>
# ... \endcond blocks.
ENABLED_SECTIONS =
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# *.vhdl, *.ucf, *.qsf and *.ice.
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*.cc \
*.cxx \
*.cpp \
*.c++ \
*.java \
*.ii \
*.ixx \
*.ipp \
*.i++ \
*.inl \
*.idl \
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*.odl \
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*.h++ \
*.cs \
*.d \
*.php \
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*.f90 \
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*.f03 \
*.f08 \
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# that contain example code fragments that are included (see the \include
# command).
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EXAMPLE_PATH = ../
# If the value of the EXAMPLE_PATH tag contains directories, you can use the
# EXAMPLE_PATTERNS tag to specify one or more wildcard pattern (like *.cpp and
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# doxygen will group on one line in the generated HTML documentation.
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\page intro Introduction
\section characteristics Characteristics
Preface {#preface}
------------------
> For the most part, this section is a copy of the corresponding text
> from LMDB description, but with some edits reflecting the improvements
> and enhancements were made in MDBX.
MDBX is a Btree-based database management library modeled loosely on the
BerkeleyDB API, but much simplified. The entire database (aka "environment")
is exposed in a memory map, and all data fetches return data directly from
the mapped memory, so no malloc's or memcpy's occur during data fetches.
As such, the library is extremely simple because it requires no page caching
layer of its own, and it is extremely high performance and memory-efficient.
It is also fully transactional with full ACID semantics, and when the memory
map is read-only, the database integrity cannot be corrupted by stray pointer
writes from application code.
The library is fully thread-aware and supports concurrent read/write access
from multiple processes and threads. Data pages use a copy-on-write strategy
so no active data pages are ever overwritten, which also provides resistance
to corruption and eliminates the need of any special recovery procedures
after a system crash. Writes are fully serialized; only one write transaction
may be active at a time, which guarantees that writers can never deadlock.
The database structure is multi-versioned so readers run with no locks;
writers cannot block readers, and readers don't block writers.
Unlike other well-known database mechanisms which use either write-ahead
transaction logs or append-only data writes, MDBX requires no maintenance
during operation. Both write-ahead loggers and append-only databases require
periodic checkpointing and/or compaction of their log or database files
otherwise they grow without bound. MDBX tracks retired/freed pages within the
database and re-uses them for new write operations, so the database size does
not grow without bound in normal use. It is worth noting that the "next"
version libmdbx (MithrilDB) will solve this problem.
The memory map can be used as a read-only or read-write map. It is read-only
by default as this provides total immunity to corruption. Using read-write
mode offers much higher write performance, but adds the possibility for stray
application writes thru pointers to silently corrupt the database.
Of course if your application code is known to be bug-free (...) then this is
not an issue.
If this is your first time using a transactional embedded key-value store,
you may find the \ref starting section below to be helpful.

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Restrictions & Caveats {#restrictions}
======================
In addition to those listed for some functions.
## Troubleshooting the LCK-file
1. A broken LCK-file can cause sync issues, including appearance of
wrong/inconsistent data for readers. When database opened in the
cooperative read-write mode the LCK-file requires to be mapped to
memory in read-write access. In this case it is always possible for
stray/malfunctioned application could writes thru pointers to
silently corrupt the LCK-file.
Unfortunately, there is no any portable way to prevent such
corruption, since the LCK-file is updated concurrently by
multiple processes in a lock-free manner and any locking is
unwise due to a large overhead.
The "next" version of libmdbx (MithrilDB) will solve this issue.
\note Workaround: Just make all programs using the database close it;
the LCK-file is always reset on first open.
2. Stale reader transactions left behind by an aborted program cause
further writes to grow the database quickly, and stale locks can
block further operation.
MDBX checks for stale readers while opening environment and before
growth the database. But in some cases, this may not be enough.
\note Workaround: Check for stale readers periodically, using the
`mdbx_reader_check()` function or the mdbx_stat tool.
3. Stale writers will be cleared automatically by MDBX on supprted
platforms. But this is platform-specific, especially of
implementation of shared POSIX-mutexes and support for robust
mutexes. For instance there are no known issues on Linux, OSX,
Windows and FreeBSD.
\note Workaround: Otherwise just make all programs using the database
close it; the LCK-file is always reset on first open
of the environment.
## Remote filesystems
Do not use MDBX databases on remote filesystems, even between processes
on the same host. This breaks file locks on some platforms, possibly
memory map sync, and certainly sync between programs on different hosts.
On the other hand, MDBX support the exclusive database operation over
a network, and cooperative read-only access to the database placed on
a read-only network shares.
## Child processes
Do not use opened `MDBX_env` instance(s) in a child processes after `fork()`.
It would be insane to call fork() and any MDBX-functions simultaneously
from multiple threads. The best way is to prevent the presence of open
MDBX-instances during `fork()`.
The `MDBX_TXN_CHECKPID` build-time option, which is ON by default on
non-Windows platforms (i.e. where `fork()` is available), enables PID
checking at a few critical points. But this does not give any guarantees,
but only allows you to detect such errors a little sooner. Depending on
the platform, you should expect an application crash and/or database
corruption in such cases.
On the other hand, MDBX allow calling `mdbx_close_env()` in such cases to
release resources, but no more and in general this is a wrong way.
## Read-only mode
There is no pure read-only mode in a normal explicitly way, since
readers need write access to LCK-file to be ones visible for writer.
So MDBX always tries to open/create LCK-file for read-write, but switches
to without-LCK mode on appropriate errors (`EROFS`, `EACCESS`, `EPERM`)
if the read-only mode was requested by the `MDBX_RDONLY` flag which is
described below.
The "next" version of libmdbx (MithrilDB) will solve this issue for the "many
readers without writer" case.
## One thread - One transaction
A thread can only use one transaction at a time, plus any nested
read-write transactions in the non-writemap mode. Each transaction
belongs to one thread. The `MDBX_NOTLS` flag changes this for read-only
transactions. See below.
Do not start more than one transaction for a one thread. If you think
about this, it's really strange to do something with two data snapshots
at once, which may be different. MDBX checks and preventing this by
returning corresponding error code (`MDBX_TXN_OVERLAPPING`, `MDBX_BAD_RSLOT`,
`MDBX_BUSY`) unless you using `MDBX_NOTLS` option on the environment.
Nonetheless, with the `MDBX_NOTLS` option, you must know exactly what you
are doing, otherwise you will get deadlocks or reading an alien data.
## Do not open twice
Do not have open an MDBX database twice in the same process at the same
time. By default MDBX prevent this in most cases by tracking databases
opening and return `MDBX_BUSY` if anyone LCK-file is already open.
The reason for this is that when the "Open file description" locks (aka
OFD-locks) are not available, MDBX uses POSIX locks on files, and these
locks have issues if one process opens a file multiple times. If a single
process opens the same environment multiple times, closing it once will
remove all the locks held on it, and the other instances will be
vulnerable to corruption from other processes.
For compatibility with LMDB which allows multi-opening, MDBX can be
configured at runtime by `mdbx_setup_debug(MDBX_DBG_LEGACY_MULTIOPEN, ...)`
prior to calling other MDBX funcitons. In this way MDBX will track
databases opening, detect multi-opening cases and then recover POSIX file
locks as necessary. However, lock recovery can cause unexpected pauses,
such as when another process opened the database in exclusive mode before
the lock was restored - we have to wait until such a process releases the
database, and so on.
## Long-lived read transactions
Avoid long-lived read transactions, especially in the scenarios with a
high rate of write transactions. Long-lived read transactions prevents
recycling pages retired/freed by newer write transactions, thus the
database can grow quickly.
Understanding the problem of long-lived read transactions requires some
explanation, but can be difficult for quick perception. So is is
reasonable to simplify this as follows:
1. Garbage collection problem exists in all databases one way or
another, e.g. VACUUM in PostgreSQL. But in MDBX it's even more
discernible because of high transaction rate and intentional
internals simplification in favor of performance.
2. MDBX employs Multiversion concurrency control on the Copy-on-Write
basis, that allows multiple readers runs in parallel with a write
transaction without blocking. An each write transaction needs free
pages to put the changed data, that pages will be placed in the new
b-tree snapshot at commit. MDBX efficiently recycling pages from
previous created unused snapshots, BUT this is impossible if anyone
a read transaction use such snapshot.
3. Thus massive altering of data during a parallel long read operation
will increase the process's work set and may exhaust entire free
database space.
A good example of long readers is a hot backup to the slow destination
or debugging of a client application while retaining an active read
transaction. LMDB this results in `MDBX_MAP_FULL` error and subsequent write
performance degradation.
MDBX mostly solve "long-lived" readers issue by the lack-of-space callback
which allow to aborts long readers, and by the `MDBX_LIFORECLAIM` mode which
addresses subsequent performance degradation.
The "next" version of libmdbx (MithrilDB) will completely solve this.
- Avoid suspending a process with active transactions. These would then be
"long-lived" as above.
The "next" version of libmdbx (MithrilDB) will solve this issue.
- Avoid aborting a process with an active read-only transaction in scenaries
with high rate of write transactions. The transaction becomes "long-lived"
as above until a check for stale readers is performed or the LCK-file is
reset, since the process may not remove it from the lockfile. This does
not apply to write transactions if the system clears stale writers, see
above.
## Space reservation
An MDBX database configuration will often reserve considerable unused
memory address space and maybe file size for future growth. This does
not use actual memory or disk space, but users may need to understand
the difference so they won't be scared off.
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Getting started {#starting}
===============
> This section is based on Bert Hubert's intro "LMDB Semantics", with
> edits reflecting the improvements and enhancements were made in MDBX.
> See Bert Hubert's [original](https://github.com/ahupowerdns/ahutils/blob/master/lmdb-semantics.md).
Everything starts with an environment, created by `mdbx_env_create()`.
Once created, this environment must also be opened with `mdbx_env_open()`,
and after use be closed by `mdbx_env_close()`. At that a non-zero value of the
last argument "mode" supposes MDBX will create database and directory if ones
does not exist. In this case the non-zero "mode" argument specifies the file
mode bits be applied when a new files are created by `open()` function.
Within that directory, a lock file (aka LCK-file) and a storage file (aka
DXB-file) will be generated. If you don't want to use a directory, you can
pass the `MDBX_NOSUBDIR` option, in which case the path you provided is used
directly as the DXB-file, and another file with a "-lck" suffix added
will be used for the LCK-file.
Once the environment is open, a transaction can be created within it using
`mdbx_txn_begin()`. Transactions may be read-write or read-only, and read-write
transactions may be nested. A transaction must only be used by one thread at
a time. Transactions are always required, even for read-only access. The
transaction provides a consistent view of the data.
Once a transaction has been created, a database (i.e. key-value space inside
the environment) can be opened within it using `mdbx_dbi_open()`. If only one
database will ever be used in the environment, a `NULL` can be passed as the
database name. For named databases, the `MDBX_CREATE` flag must be used to
create the database if it doesn't already exist. Also, `mdbx_env_set_maxdbs()`
must be called after `mdbx_env_create()` and before `mdbx_env_open()` to set
the maximum number of named databases you want to support.
\note A single transaction can open multiple databases. Generally databases
should only be opened once, by the first transaction in the process.
Within a transaction, `mdbx_get()` and `mdbx_put()` can store single key-value
pairs if that is all you need to do (but see \ref Cursors below if you want to do
more).
A key-value pair is expressed as two `MDBX_val` structures. This struct that is
exactly similar to POSIX's `struct iovec` and has two fields, `iov_len` and
`iov_base`. The data is a `void` pointer to an array of `iov_len` bytes.
\note The notable difference between MDBX and LMDB is that MDBX support zero
length keys.
Because MDBX is very efficient (and usually zero-copy), the data returned in
an `MDBX_val` structure may be memory-mapped straight from disk. In other words
look but do not touch (or `free()` for that matter). Once a transaction is
closed, the values can no longer be used, so make a copy if you need to keep
them after that.
## Cursors {#Cursors}
To do more powerful things, we must use a cursor.
Within the transaction, a cursor can be created with `mdbx_cursor_open()`.
With this cursor we can store/retrieve/delete (multiple) values using
`mdbx_cursor_get()`, `mdbx_cursor_put()` and `mdbx_cursor_del()`.
The `mdbx_cursor_get()` positions itself depending on the cursor operation
requested, and for some operations, on the supplied key. For example, to list
all key-value pairs in a database, use operation `MDBX_FIRST` for the first
call to `mdbx_cursor_get()`, and `MDBX_NEXT` on subsequent calls, until the end
is hit.
To retrieve all keys starting from a specified key value, use `MDBX_SET`. For
more cursor operations, see the API description below.
When using `mdbx_cursor_put()`, either the function will position the cursor
for you based on the key, or you can use operation `MDBX_CURRENT` to use the
current position of the cursor. \note Note that key must then match the current
position's key.
## Summarizing the opening
So we have a cursor in a transaction which opened a database in an
environment which is opened from a filesystem after it was separately
created.
Or, we create an environment, open it from a filesystem, create a transaction
within it, open a database within that transaction, and create a cursor
within all of the above.
Got it?
## Threads and processes
Do not have open an database twice in the same process at the same time, MDBX
will track and prevent this. Instead, share the MDBX environment that has
opened the file across all threads. The reason for this is:
- When the "Open file description" locks (aka OFD-locks) are not available,
MDBX uses POSIX locks on files, and these locks have issues if one process
opens a file multiple times.
- If a single process opens the same environment multiple times, closing it
once will remove all the locks held on it, and the other instances will be
vulnerable to corruption from other processes.
+ For compatibility with LMDB which allows multi-opening, MDBX can be
configured at runtime by `mdbx_setup_debug(MDBX_DBG_LEGACY_MULTIOPEN, ...)`
prior to calling other MDBX funcitons. In this way MDBX will track
databases opening, detect multi-opening cases and then recover POSIX file
locks as necessary. However, lock recovery can cause unexpected pauses,
such as when another process opened the database in exclusive mode before
the lock was restored - we have to wait until such a process releases the
database, and so on.
Do not use opened MDBX environment(s) after `fork()` in a child process(es),
MDBX will check and prevent this at critical points. Instead, ensure there is
no open MDBX-instance(s) during fork(), or atleast close it immediately after
`fork()` in the child process and reopen if required - for instance by using
`pthread_atfork()`. The reason for this is:
- For competitive consistent reading, MDBX assigns a slot in the shared
table for each process that interacts with the database. This slot is
populated with process attributes, including the PID.
- After `fork()`, in order to remain connected to a database, the child
process must have its own such "slot", which can't be assigned in any
simple and robust way another than the regular.
- A write transaction from a parent process cannot continue in a child
process for obvious reasons.
- Moreover, in a multithreaded process at the fork() moment any number of
threads could run in critical and/or intermediate sections of MDBX code
with interaction and/or racing conditions with threads from other
process(es). For instance: shrinking a database or copying it to a pipe,
opening or closing environment, begining or finishing a transaction,
and so on.
= Therefore, any solution other than simply close database (and reopen if
necessary) in a child process would be both extreme complicated and so
fragile.
Do not start more than one transaction for a one thread. If you think about
this, it's really strange to do something with two data snapshots at once,
which may be different. MDBX checks and preventing this by returning
corresponding error code (`MDBX_TXN_OVERLAPPING`, `MDBX_BAD_RSLOT`, `MDBX_BUSY`)
unless you using `MDBX_NOTLS` option on the environment. Nonetheless, with the
`MDBX_NOTLS option`, you must know exactly what you are doing, otherwise you
will get deadlocks or reading an alien data.
Also note that a transaction is tied to one thread by default using Thread
Local Storage. If you want to pass read-only transactions across threads,
you can use the MDBX_NOTLS option on the environment. Nevertheless, a write
transaction entirely should only be used in one thread from start to finish.
MDBX checks this in a reasonable manner and return the MDBX_THREAD_MISMATCH
error in rules violation.
## Transactions, rollbacks etc
To actually get anything done, a transaction must be committed using
`mdbx_txn_commit()`. Alternatively, all of a transaction's operations
can be discarded using `mdbx_txn_abort()`.
\attention An important difference between MDBX and LMDB is that MDBX required
that any opened cursors can be reused and must be freed explicitly, regardless
ones was opened in a read-only or write transaction. The REASON for this is
eliminates ambiguity which helps to avoid errors such as: use-after-free,
double-free, i.e. memory corruption and segfaults.
For read-only transactions, obviously there is nothing to commit to storage.
\attention An another notable difference between MDBX and LMDB is that MDBX make
handles opened for existing databases immediately available for other
transactions, regardless this transaction will be aborted or reset. The
REASON for this is to avoiding the requirement for multiple opening a same
handles in concurrent read transactions, and tracking of such open but hidden
handles until the completion of read transactions which opened them.
In addition, as long as a transaction is open, a consistent view of the
database is kept alive, which requires storage. A read-only transaction that
no longer requires this consistent view should be terminated (committed or
aborted) when the view is no longer needed (but see below for an
optimization).
There can be multiple simultaneously active read-only transactions but only
one that can write. Once a single read-write transaction is opened, all
further attempts to begin one will block until the first one is committed or
aborted. This has no effect on read-only transactions, however, and they may
continue to be opened at any time.
## Duplicate keys aka Multi-values
`mdbx_get()` and `mdbx_put()` respectively have no and only some support or
multiple key-value pairs with identical keys. If there are multiple values
for a key, `mdbx_get()` will only return the first value.
When multiple values for one key are required, pass the `MDBX_DUPSORT` flag to
`mdbx_dbi_open()`. In an `MDBX_DUPSORT` database, by default `mdbx_put()` will
not replace the value for a key if the key existed already. Instead it will add
the new value to the key. In addition, `mdbx_del()` will pay attention to the
value field too, allowing for specific values of a key to be deleted.
Finally, additional cursor operations become available for traversing through
and retrieving duplicate values.
## Some optimization
If you frequently begin and abort read-only transactions, as an optimization,
it is possible to only reset and renew a transaction.
`mdbx_txn_reset()` releases any old copies of data kept around for a read-only
transaction. To reuse this reset transaction, call `mdbx_txn_renew()` on it.
Any cursors in this transaction can also be renewed using `mdbx_cursor_renew()`
or freed by `mdbx_cursor_close()`.
To permanently free a transaction, reset or not, use `mdbx_txn_abort()`.
## Cleaning up
Any created cursors must be closed using `mdbx_cursor_close()`. It is advisable
to repeat:
\note An important difference between MDBX and LMDB is that MDBX required that
any opened cursors can be reused and must be freed explicitly, regardless
ones was opened in a read-only or write transaction. The REASON for this is
eliminates ambiguity which helps to avoid errors such as: use-after-free,
double-free, i.e. memory corruption and segfaults.
It is very rarely necessary to close a database handle, and in general they
should just be left open. When you close a handle, it immediately becomes
unavailable for all transactions in the environment. Therefore, you should
avoid closing the handle while at least one transaction is using it.
## Now read up on the full API!
The full MDBX documentation lists further details below, like how to:
- configure database size and automatic size management
- drop and clean a database
- detect and report errors
- optimize (bulk) loading speed
- (temporarily) reduce robustness to gain even more speed
- gather statistics about the database
- estimate size of range query result
- double perfomance by LIFO reclaiming on storages with write-back
- use sequences and canary markers
- use lack-of-space callback (aka OOM-KICK)
- use exclusive mode
- define custom sort orders (but this is recommended to be avoided)

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_The Future will (be) [Positive](https://www.ptsecurity.com). Всё будет хорошо._
\section toc Table of Contents
This manual is divided into parts,
each of which is divided into several sections.
1. The \ref intro
- \ref characteristics
- Preface
- Features
- Limitations
- Gotchas
- Comparison with other databases
- \ref restrictions
- \ref performance
- Integral performance
- Read Scalability
- Sync-write mode
- Lazy-write mode
- Async-write mode
- Cost comparison
2. \ref usage
- \ref getting
- Embedding
- Building
- \ref starting
- Opening
- Cursors
- Threads and processes
- Transactions
- Duplicate keys aka Multi-values
- Cleaning up
- \ref bindings
3. The `C` API reference manual:
- TODO
Please do not hesitate to point out errors in the documentation,
including creating [PR](https://help.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/proposing-changes-to-your-work-with-pull-requests) with corrections and improvements.
---
\section mithril Mithril DB

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/*!
\file mdbx.h
\brief The libmdbx C API header file
\mainpage One of the fastest embeddable key-value ACID database without WAL.
\section overview OVERVIEW
_libmdbx_ is an extremely fast, compact, powerful, embedded,
transactional [key-value
store](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key-value_database) database, with
[permissive license](./LICENSE). _MDBX_ has a specific set of properties and
capabilities, focused on creating unique lightweight solutions with
extraordinary performance.
_libmdbx_ is superior to [LMDB](https://bit.ly/26ts7tL) in terms of features
and reliability, not inferior in performance. In comparison to LMDB, _libmdbx_
@ -14,474 +14,13 @@ break down. _libmdbx_ supports Linux, Windows, MacOS, OSX, iOS, Android,
FreeBSD, DragonFly, Solaris, OpenSolaris, OpenIndiana, NetBSD, OpenBSD and other
systems compliant with POSIX.1-2008.
Look below for API description, for other information (build, embedding and
amalgamation, improvements over LMDB, benchmarking, etc) please refer
to [README](https://abf.io/erthink/libmdbx/README.md).
_The Future will (be) [Positive](https://www.ptsecurity.com). Всё будет хорошо._
> The next version is under active non-public development and will be released
> as _MithrilDB_ and `libmithrildb` for libraries & packages. Admittedly
> mythical Mithril is resembling silver but being stronger and lighter than
> steel. Therefore MithrilDB is a rightly relevant name.
>
> MithrilDB will be radically different from libmdbx by the new database format
> and API based on C++17, as well as the Apache 2.0 License. The goal of this
> revolution is to provide a clearer and robust API, add more features and new
> valuable properties of database.
\motto The Future will (be) Positive. Всё будет хорошо.
\section intro INTRODUCTION
> For the most part, this section is a copy of the corresponding text
> from LMDB description, but with some edits reflecting the improvements
> and enhancements were made in MDBX.
MDBX is a Btree-based database management library modeled loosely on the
BerkeleyDB API, but much simplified. The entire database (aka "environment")
is exposed in a memory map, and all data fetches return data directly from
the mapped memory, so no malloc's or memcpy's occur during data fetches.
As such, the library is extremely simple because it requires no page caching
layer of its own, and it is extremely high performance and memory-efficient.
It is also fully transactional with full ACID semantics, and when the memory
map is read-only, the database integrity cannot be corrupted by stray pointer
writes from application code.
The library is fully thread-aware and supports concurrent read/write access
from multiple processes and threads. Data pages use a copy-on-write strategy
so no active data pages are ever overwritten, which also provides resistance
to corruption and eliminates the need of any special recovery procedures
after a system crash. Writes are fully serialized; only one write transaction
may be active at a time, which guarantees that writers can never deadlock.
The database structure is multi-versioned so readers run with no locks;
writers cannot block readers, and readers don't block writers.
Unlike other well-known database mechanisms which use either write-ahead
transaction logs or append-only data writes, MDBX requires no maintenance
during operation. Both write-ahead loggers and append-only databases require
periodic checkpointing and/or compaction of their log or database files
otherwise they grow without bound. MDBX tracks retired/freed pages within the
database and re-uses them for new write operations, so the database size does
not grow without bound in normal use. It is worth noting that the "next"
version libmdbx (MithrilDB) will solve this problem.
The memory map can be used as a read-only or read-write map. It is read-only
by default as this provides total immunity to corruption. Using read-write
mode offers much higher write performance, but adds the possibility for stray
application writes thru pointers to silently corrupt the database.
Of course if your application code is known to be bug-free (...) then this is
not an issue.
If this is your first time using a transactional embedded key-value store,
you may find the "GETTING STARTED" section below to be helpful.
\section start GETTING STARTED
> This section is based on Bert Hubert's intro "LMDB Semantics", with
> edits reflecting the improvements and enhancements were made in MDBX.
> See https://bit.ly/2maejGY for Bert Hubert's original.
Everything starts with an environment, created by `mdbx_env_create()`.
Once created, this environment must also be opened with mdbx_env_open(),
and after use be closed by `mdbx_env_close()`. At that a non-zero value of the
last argument "mode" supposes MDBX will create database and directory if ones
does not exist. In this case the non-zero "mode" argument specifies the file
mode bits be applied when a new files are created by `open()` function.
Within that directory, a lock file (aka LCK-file) and a storage file (aka
DXB-file) will be generated. If you don't want to use a directory, you can
pass the `MDBX_NOSUBDIR` option, in which case the path you provided is used
directly as the DXB-file, and another file with a "-lck" suffix added
will be used for the LCK-file.
Once the environment is open, a transaction can be created within it using
`mdbx_txn_begin()`. Transactions may be read-write or read-only, and read-write
transactions may be nested. A transaction must only be used by one thread at
a time. Transactions are always required, even for read-only access. The
transaction provides a consistent view of the data.
Once a transaction has been created, a database (i.e. key-value space inside
the environment) can be opened within it using `mdbx_dbi_open()`. If only one
database will ever be used in the environment, a `NULL` can be passed as the
database name. For named databases, the `MDBX_CREATE` flag must be used to
create the database if it doesn't already exist. Also, mdbx_env_set_maxdbs()
must be called after `mdbx_env_create()` and before `mdbx_env_open()` to set the
maximum number of named databases you want to support.
\note A single transaction can open multiple databases. Generally databases
should only be opened once, by the first transaction in the process.
Within a transaction, `mdbx_get()` and `mdbx_put()` can store single key-value
pairs if that is all you need to do (but see CURSORS below if you want to do
more).
A key-value pair is expressed as two `MDBX_val` structures. This struct that is
exactly similar to POSIX's struct iovec and has two fields, iov_len and
iov_base. The data is a void pointer to an array of iov_len bytes.
\note The notable difference between MDBX and LMDB is that MDBX support zero
length keys.
Because MDBX is very efficient (and usually zero-copy), the data returned in
an MDBX_val structure may be memory-mapped straight from disk. In other words
look but do not touch (or free() for that matter). Once a transaction is
closed, the values can no longer be used, so make a copy if you need to keep
them after that.
\subsection cursors CURSORS
To do more powerful things, we must use a cursor.
Within the transaction, a cursor can be created with `mdbx_cursor_open()`.
With this cursor we can store/retrieve/delete (multiple) values using
`mdbx_cursor_get()`, `mdbx_cursor_put()` and `mdbx_cursor_del()`.
The `mdbx_cursor_get()` positions itself depending on the cursor operation
requested, and for some operations, on the supplied key. For example, to list
all key-value pairs in a database, use operation `MDBX_FIRST` for the first
call to `mdbx_cursor_get()`, and `MDBX_NEXT` on subsequent calls, until the end
is hit.
To retrieve all keys starting from a specified key value, use `MDBX_SET`. For
more cursor operations, see the API description below.
When using `mdbx_cursor_put()`, either the function will position the cursor
for you based on the key, or you can use operation `MDBX_CURRENT` to use the
current position of the cursor. \note Note that key must then match the current
position's key.
\subsection opening SUMMARIZING THE OPENING
So we have a cursor in a transaction which opened a database in an
environment which is opened from a filesystem after it was separately
created.
Or, we create an environment, open it from a filesystem, create a transaction
within it, open a database within that transaction, and create a cursor
within all of the above.
Got it?
\subsection threads THREADS AND PROCESSES
Do not have open an database twice in the same process at the same time, MDBX
will track and prevent this. Instead, share the MDBX environment that has
opened the file across all threads. The reason for this is:
- When the "Open file description" locks (aka OFD-locks) are not available,
MDBX uses POSIX locks on files, and these locks have issues if one process
opens a file multiple times.
- If a single process opens the same environment multiple times, closing it
once will remove all the locks held on it, and the other instances will be
vulnerable to corruption from other processes.
+ For compatibility with LMDB which allows multi-opening, MDBX can be
configured at runtime by `mdbx_setup_debug(MDBX_DBG_LEGACY_MULTIOPEN, ...)`
prior to calling other MDBX funcitons. In this way MDBX will track
databases opening, detect multi-opening cases and then recover POSIX file
locks as necessary. However, lock recovery can cause unexpected pauses,
such as when another process opened the database in exclusive mode before
the lock was restored - we have to wait until such a process releases the
database, and so on.
Do not use opened MDBX environment(s) after `fork()` in a child process(es),
MDBX will check and prevent this at critical points. Instead, ensure there is
no open MDBX-instance(s) during fork(), or atleast close it immediately after
`fork()` in the child process and reopen if required - for instance by using
`pthread_atfork()`. The reason for this is:
- For competitive consistent reading, MDBX assigns a slot in the shared
table for each process that interacts with the database. This slot is
populated with process attributes, including the PID.
- After `fork()`, in order to remain connected to a database, the child
process must have its own such "slot", which can't be assigned in any
simple and robust way another than the regular.
- A write transaction from a parent process cannot continue in a child
process for obvious reasons.
- Moreover, in a multithreaded process at the fork() moment any number of
threads could run in critical and/or intermediate sections of MDBX code
with interaction and/or racing conditions with threads from other
process(es). For instance: shrinking a database or copying it to a pipe,
opening or closing environment, begining or finishing a transaction,
and so on.
= Therefore, any solution other than simply close database (and reopen if
necessary) in a child process would be both extreme complicated and so
fragile.
Do not start more than one transaction for a one thread. If you think about
this, it's really strange to do something with two data snapshots at once,
which may be different. MDBX checks and preventing this by returning
corresponding error code (`MDBX_TXN_OVERLAPPING`, `MDBX_BAD_RSLOT`, `MDBX_BUSY`)
unless you using `MDBX_NOTLS` option on the environment. Nonetheless, with the
`MDBX_NOTLS option`, you must know exactly what you are doing, otherwise you
will get deadlocks or reading an alien data.
Also note that a transaction is tied to one thread by default using Thread
Local Storage. If you want to pass read-only transactions across threads,
you can use the MDBX_NOTLS option on the environment. Nevertheless, a write
transaction entirely should only be used in one thread from start to finish.
MDBX checks this in a reasonable manner and return the MDBX_THREAD_MISMATCH
error in rules violation.
\subsection transactions TRANSACTIONS, ROLLBACKS, etc.
To actually get anything done, a transaction must be committed using
`mdbx_txn_commit()`. Alternatively, all of a transaction's operations
can be discarded using `mdbx_txn_abort()`.
\note An important difference between MDBX and LMDB is that MDBX required that
any opened cursors can be reused and must be freed explicitly, regardless
ones was opened in a read-only or write transaction. The REASON for this is
eliminates ambiguity which helps to avoid errors such as: use-after-free,
double-free, i.e. memory corruption and segfaults.
For read-only transactions, obviously there is nothing to commit to storage.
\note An another notable difference between MDBX and LMDB is that MDBX make
handles opened for existing databases immediately available for other
transactions, regardless this transaction will be aborted or reset. The
REASON for this is to avoiding the requirement for multiple opening a same
handles in concurrent read transactions, and tracking of such open but hidden
handles until the completion of read transactions which opened them.
In addition, as long as a transaction is open, a consistent view of the
database is kept alive, which requires storage. A read-only transaction that
no longer requires this consistent view should be terminated (committed or
aborted) when the view is no longer needed (but see below for an
optimization).
There can be multiple simultaneously active read-only transactions but only
one that can write. Once a single read-write transaction is opened, all
further attempts to begin one will block until the first one is committed or
aborted. This has no effect on read-only transactions, however, and they may
continue to be opened at any time.
\subsection dups DUPLICATE KEYS aka MULTI-VALUEs
`mdbx_get()` and `mdbx_put()` respectively have no and only some support or
multiple key-value pairs with identical keys. If there are multiple values
for a key, `mdbx_get()` will only return the first value.
When multiple values for one key are required, pass the `MDBX_DUPSORT` flag to
`mdbx_dbi_open()`. In an `MDBX_DUPSORT` database, by default `mdbx_put()` will
not replace the value for a key if the key existed already. Instead it will add
the new value to the key. In addition, `mdbx_del()` will pay attention to the
value field too, allowing for specific values of a key to be deleted.
Finally, additional cursor operations become available for traversing through
and retrieving duplicate values.
\subsection optimization SOME OPTIMIZATION
If you frequently begin and abort read-only transactions, as an optimization,
it is possible to only reset and renew a transaction.
`mdbx_txn_reset()` releases any old copies of data kept around for a read-only
transaction. To reuse this reset transaction, call `mdbx_txn_renew()` on it.
Any cursors in this transaction can also be renewed using `mdbx_cursor_renew()`
or freed by `mdbx_cursor_close()`.
To permanently free a transaction, reset or not, use `mdbx_txn_abort()`.
\subsection cleanup CLEANING UP
Any created cursors must be closed using `mdbx_cursor_close()`. It is advisable
to repeat:
\note An important difference between MDBX and LMDB is that MDBX required that
any opened cursors can be reused and must be freed explicitly, regardless
ones was opened in a read-only or write transaction. The REASON for this is
eliminates ambiguity which helps to avoid errors such as: use-after-free,
double-free, i.e. memory corruption and segfaults.
It is very rarely necessary to close a database handle, and in general they
should just be left open. When you close a handle, it immediately becomes
unavailable for all transactions in the environment. Therefore, you should
avoid closing the handle while at least one transaction is using it.
\subsection api THE FULL API
The full MDBX documentation lists further details below, like how to:
- configure database size and automatic size management
- drop and clean a database
- detect and report errors
- optimize (bulk) loading speed
- (temporarily) reduce robustness to gain even more speed
- gather statistics about the database
- estimate size of range query result
- double perfomance by LIFO reclaiming on storages with write-back
- use sequences and canary markers
- use lack-of-space callback (aka OOM-KICK)
- use exclusive mode
- define custom sort orders (but this is recommended to be avoided)
\section restrictions RESTRICTIONS & CAVEATS
in addition to those listed for some functions.
- Troubleshooting the LCK-file.
1. A broken LCK-file can cause sync issues, including appearance of
wrong/inconsistent data for readers. When database opened in the
cooperative read-write mode the LCK-file requires to be mapped to
memory in read-write access. In this case it is always possible for
stray/malfunctioned application could writes thru pointers to
silently corrupt the LCK-file.
Unfortunately, there is no any portable way to prevent such
corruption, since the LCK-file is updated concurrently by
multiple processes in a lock-free manner and any locking is
unwise due to a large overhead.
The "next" version of libmdbx (MithrilDB) will solve this issue.
Workaround: Just make all programs using the database close it;
the LCK-file is always reset on first open.
2. Stale reader transactions left behind by an aborted program cause
further writes to grow the database quickly, and stale locks can
block further operation.
MDBX checks for stale readers while opening environment and before
growth the database. But in some cases, this may not be enough.
Workaround: Check for stale readers periodically, using the
`mdbx_reader_check()` function or the mdbx_stat tool.
3. Stale writers will be cleared automatically by MDBX on supprted
platforms. But this is platform-specific, especially of
implementation of shared POSIX-mutexes and support for robust
mutexes. For instance there are no known issues on Linux, OSX,
Windows and FreeBSD.
Workaround: Otherwise just make all programs using the database
close it; the LCK-file is always reset on first open
of the environment.
- Do not use MDBX databases on remote filesystems, even between processes
on the same host. This breaks file locks on some platforms, possibly
memory map sync, and certainly sync between programs on different hosts.
On the other hand, MDBX support the exclusive database operation over
a network, and cooperative read-only access to the database placed on
a read-only network shares.
- Do not use opened `MDBX_env` instance(s) in a child processes after `fork()`.
It would be insane to call fork() and any MDBX-functions simultaneously
from multiple threads. The best way is to prevent the presence of open
MDBX-instances during `fork()`.
The `MDBX_TXN_CHECKPID` build-time option, which is ON by default on
non-Windows platforms (i.e. where `fork()` is available), enables PID
checking at a few critical points. But this does not give any guarantees,
but only allows you to detect such errors a little sooner. Depending on
the platform, you should expect an application crash and/or database
corruption in such cases.
On the other hand, MDBX allow calling `mdbx_close_env()` in such cases to
release resources, but no more and in general this is a wrong way.
- There is no pure read-only mode in a normal explicitly way, since
readers need write access to LCK-file to be ones visible for writer.
MDBX always tries to open/create LCK-file for read-write, but switches
to without-LCK mode on appropriate errors (`EROFS`, `EACCESS`, `EPERM`)
if the read-only mode was requested by the `MDBX_RDONLY` flag which is
described below.
The "next" version of libmdbx (MithrilDB) will solve this issue.
- A thread can only use one transaction at a time, plus any nested
read-write transactions in the non-writemap mode. Each transaction
belongs to one thread. The `MDBX_NOTLS` flag changes this for read-only
transactions. See below.
Do not start more than one transaction for a one thread. If you think
about this, it's really strange to do something with two data snapshots
at once, which may be different. MDBX checks and preventing this by
returning corresponding error code (`MDBX_TXN_OVERLAPPING`, `MDBX_BAD_RSLOT`,
`MDBX_BUSY`) unless you using `MDBX_NOTLS` option on the environment.
Nonetheless, with the `MDBX_NOTLS` option, you must know exactly what you
are doing, otherwise you will get deadlocks or reading an alien data.
- Do not have open an MDBX database twice in the same process at the same
time. By default MDBX prevent this in most cases by tracking databases
opening and return `MDBX_BUSY` if anyone LCK-file is already open.
The reason for this is that when the "Open file description" locks (aka
OFD-locks) are not available, MDBX uses POSIX locks on files, and these
locks have issues if one process opens a file multiple times. If a single
process opens the same environment multiple times, closing it once will
remove all the locks held on it, and the other instances will be
vulnerable to corruption from other processes.
For compatibility with LMDB which allows multi-opening, MDBX can be
configured at runtime by `mdbx_setup_debug(MDBX_DBG_LEGACY_MULTIOPEN, ...)`
prior to calling other MDBX funcitons. In this way MDBX will track
databases opening, detect multi-opening cases and then recover POSIX file
locks as necessary. However, lock recovery can cause unexpected pauses,
such as when another process opened the database in exclusive mode before
the lock was restored - we have to wait until such a process releases the
database, and so on.
- Avoid long-lived read transactions, especially in the scenarios with a
high rate of write transactions. Long-lived read transactions prevents
recycling pages retired/freed by newer write transactions, thus the
database can grow quickly.
Understanding the problem of long-lived read transactions requires some
explanation, but can be difficult for quick perception. So is is
reasonable to simplify this as follows:
1. Garbage collection problem exists in all databases one way or
another, e.g. VACUUM in PostgreSQL. But in MDBX it's even more
discernible because of high transaction rate and intentional
internals simplification in favor of performance.
2. MDBX employs Multiversion concurrency control on the Copy-on-Write
basis, that allows multiple readers runs in parallel with a write
transaction without blocking. An each write transaction needs free
pages to put the changed data, that pages will be placed in the new
b-tree snapshot at commit. MDBX efficiently recycling pages from
previous created unused snapshots, BUT this is impossible if anyone
a read transaction use such snapshot.
3. Thus massive altering of data during a parallel long read operation
will increase the process's work set and may exhaust entire free
database space.
A good example of long readers is a hot backup to the slow destination
or debugging of a client application while retaining an active read
transaction. LMDB this results in `MDBX_MAP_FULL` error and subsequent write
performance degradation.
MDBX mostly solve "long-lived" readers issue by the lack-of-space callback
which allow to aborts long readers, and by the `MDBX_LIFORECLAIM` mode which
addresses subsequent performance degradation.
The "next" version of libmdbx (MithrilDB) will completely solve this.
- Avoid suspending a process with active transactions. These would then be
"long-lived" as above.
The "next" version of libmdbx (MithrilDB) will solve this issue.
- Avoid aborting a process with an active read-only transaction in scenaries
with high rate of write transactions. The transaction becomes "long-lived"
as above until a check for stale readers is performed or the LCK-file is
reset, since the process may not remove it from the lockfile. This does
not apply to write transactions if the system clears stale writers, see
above.
- An MDBX database configuration will often reserve considerable unused
memory address space and maybe file size for future growth. This does
not use actual memory or disk space, but users may need to understand
the difference so they won't be scared off.
- \todo The Write Amplification Factor.
\section license LICENSE & COPYRIGHT
\section copyright LICENSE & COPYRIGHT
\authors Copyright 2015-2020 Leonid Yuriev <leo@yuriev.ru>
and other _libmdbx_ authors: please see AUTHORS file.
and other _libmdbx_ authors: please see [AUTHORS](./AUTHORS) file.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted only as authorized by the OpenLDAP Public License.
@ -524,16 +63,12 @@ WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
\subsection asknowledgements ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Howard Chu (Symas Corporation) - the author of LMDB,
from which originated the MDBX in 2015.
Martin Hedenfalk <martin@bzero.se> - the author of `btree.c` code,
which was used for begin development of LMDB.
*******************************************************************************/
/**
\file mdbx.h
\brief The libmdbx C API header file
*/
#pragma once
#ifndef LIBMDBX_H
#define LIBMDBX_H
@ -577,6 +112,10 @@ typedef pthread_t mdbx_tid_t;
#pragma warning(pop)
#endif
/**
\defgroup api_macros Common Macros
@{ */
/*----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
#ifndef __has_attribute
@ -677,8 +216,8 @@ typedef pthread_t mdbx_tid_t;
#ifndef DEFINE_ENUM_FLAG_OPERATORS
#if defined(__cplusplus)
// Define operator overloads to enable bit operations on enum values that are
// used to define flags (based on Microsoft's DEFINE_ENUM_FLAG_OPERATORS).
/// Define operator overloads to enable bit operations on enum values that are
/// used to define flags (based on Microsoft's DEFINE_ENUM_FLAG_OPERATORS).
#define DEFINE_ENUM_FLAG_OPERATORS(ENUM) \
extern "C++" { \
cxx11_constexpr ENUM operator|(ENUM a, ENUM b) { \
@ -716,44 +255,46 @@ typedef pthread_t mdbx_tid_t;
#endif
#endif /* LIBMDBX_API */
/**
@} The end of Common Macros
\defgroup c_api C API
@{ */
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
/**** MDBX version information ************************************************/
#if defined(LIBMDBX_IMPORTS)
#define LIBMDBX_VERINFO_API __dll_import
#else
#define LIBMDBX_VERINFO_API __dll_export
#endif /* LIBMDBX_VERINFO_API */
typedef struct mdbx_version_info {
uint8_t major;
uint8_t minor;
uint16_t release;
uint32_t revision;
struct /** source info from git */ {
const char *datetime /** committer date, strict ISO-8601 format */;
const char *tree /** commit hash (hexadecimal digits) */;
const char *commit /** tree hash, i.e. digest of the source code */;
const char *describe /** git-describe string */;
} git;
const char *sourcery /** sourcery anchor for pinning */;
} mdbx_version_info;
extern LIBMDBX_VERINFO_API const mdbx_version_info mdbx_version;
/** MDBX version information */
extern LIBMDBX_VERINFO_API const struct MDBX_version_info {
uint8_t major; /**< Major version number */
uint8_t minor; /**< Minor version number */
uint16_t release; /**< Release number of Major.Minor */
uint32_t revision; /**< Revision number of Release */
struct {
const char *datetime; /**< committer date, strict ISO-8601 format */
const char *tree; /**< commit hash (hexadecimal digits) */
const char *commit; /**< tree hash, i.e. digest of the source code */
const char *describe; /**< git-describe string */
} git; /**< source information from git */
const char *sourcery; /**< sourcery anchor for pinning */
} mdbx_version;
/** MDBX build information.
* \warning Some strings could be NULL in case no corresponding information was
* provided at build time (i.e. flags). */
typedef struct mdbx_build_info {
const char *datetime /** build timestamp (ISO-8601 or __DATE__ __TIME__) */;
const char *target /** cpu/arch-system-config triplet */;
const char *options /** mdbx-related options */;
const char *compiler /** compiler */;
const char *flags /** CFLAGS */;
} mdbx_build_info;
extern LIBMDBX_VERINFO_API const mdbx_build_info mdbx_build;
/** MDBX build information
\attention Some strings could be NULL in case no corresponding information was
provided at build time (i.e. flags). */
extern LIBMDBX_VERINFO_API const struct MDBX_build_info {
const char *datetime; /**< build timestamp (ISO-8601 or __DATE__ __TIME__) */
const char *target; /**< cpu/arch-system-config triplet */
const char *options; /**< mdbx-related options */
const char *compiler; /**< compiler */
const char *flags; /**< CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS */
} mdbx_build;
#if defined(_WIN32) || defined(_WIN64)
#if !MDBX_BUILD_SHARED_LIBRARY
@ -805,9 +346,8 @@ void LIBMDBX_API NTAPI mdbx_dll_handler(PVOID module, DWORD reason,
/**** OPACITY STRUCTURES ******************************************************/
/** Opaque structure for a database environment.
*
* \details n environment supports multiple key-value databases (aka key-value
* spaces or tables), all residing in the same shared-memory map. */
\details An environment supports multiple key-value databases (aka key-value
spaces or tables), all residing in the same shared-memory map. */
#ifndef __cplusplus
typedef struct MDBX_env MDBX_env;
#else
@ -815,9 +355,8 @@ struct MDBX_env;
#endif
/** Opaque structure for a transaction handle.
*
* \details All database operations require a transaction handle. Transactions
* may be read-only or read-write. */
\details All database operations require a transaction handle. Transactions
may be read-only or read-write. */
#ifndef __cplusplus
typedef struct MDBX_txn MDBX_txn;
#else
@ -847,7 +386,7 @@ struct MDBX_cursor;
* The same applies to data sizes in databases with the MDBX_DUPSORT flag.
* Other data items can in theory be from 0 to 0x7fffffff bytes long.
*
* (!) The notable difference between MDBX and LMDB is that MDBX support zero
* \note The notable difference between MDBX and LMDB is that MDBX support zero
* length keys. */
#ifndef HAVE_STRUCT_IOVEC
struct iovec {
@ -1089,7 +628,7 @@ enum MDBX_env_flags_t {
* read-write mode. This offers a significant performance benefit, since the
* data will be modified directly in mapped memory and then flushed to disk by
* single system call, without any memory management nor copying.
* (!) On the other hand, MDBX_WRITEMAP adds the possibility for stray
* \note On the other hand, MDBX_WRITEMAP adds the possibility for stray
* application writes thru pointers to silently corrupt the database.
* Moreover, MDBX_WRITEMAP disallows nested write transactions.
*
@ -1394,14 +933,14 @@ enum MDBX_env_flags_t {
/** Don't sync anything but keep previous steady commits,
* see description in the "SYNC MODES" section above.
*
* (!) don't combine this flag with MDBX_MAPASYNC
* \note don't combine this flag with MDBX_MAPASYNC
* since you will got MDBX_UTTERLY_NOSYNC in that way (see below) */
MDBX_SAFE_NOSYNC = UINT32_C(0x10000),
/** Use asynchronous msync when MDBX_WRITEMAP is used,
* see description in the "SYNC MODES" section above.
*
* (!) don't combine this flag with MDBX_SAFE_NOSYNC
* \note don't combine this flag with MDBX_SAFE_NOSYNC
* since you will got MDBX_UTTERLY_NOSYNC in that way (see below) */
MDBX_MAPASYNC = UINT32_C(0x100000),
@ -2757,7 +2296,7 @@ typedef int(MDBX_cmp_func)(const MDBX_val *a, const MDBX_val *b);
* discarded by calling mdbx_dbi_close(). The old database handle is returned if
* the database was already open. The handle may only be closed once.
*
* (!) A notable difference between MDBX and LMDB is that MDBX make handles
* \note A notable difference between MDBX and LMDB is that MDBX make handles
* opened for existing databases immediately available for other transactions,
* regardless this transaction will be aborted or reset. The REASON for this is
* to avoiding the requirement for multiple opening a same handles in concurrent
@ -3896,6 +3435,8 @@ LIBMDBX_API int mdbx_get_attr(MDBX_txn *txn, MDBX_dbi dbi, MDBX_val *key,
MDBX_val *data, mdbx_attr_t *attrptr);
#endif /* MDBX_NEXENTA_ATTRS */
/** @} The end of C API */
/*******************************************************************************
* Workaround for mmaped-lookahead-cross-page-boundary bug
* in an obsolete versions of Elbrus's libc and kernels. */

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@ -18820,7 +18820,7 @@ __dll_export
__has_attribute(__externally_visible__)
__attribute__((__externally_visible__))
#endif
const mdbx_build_info mdbx_build = {
const struct MDBX_build_info mdbx_build = {
#ifdef MDBX_BUILD_TIMESTAMP
MDBX_BUILD_TIMESTAMP
#else

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@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ __dll_export
__has_attribute(__externally_visible__)
__attribute__((__externally_visible__))
#endif
const mdbx_version_info mdbx_version = {
const struct MDBX_version_info mdbx_version = {
${MDBX_VERSION_MAJOR},
${MDBX_VERSION_MINOR},
${MDBX_VERSION_RELEASE},