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mtbl is a C library implementation of the Sorted String Table
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(SSTable) data structure, based on the SSTable implementation in
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the open source Google LevelDB library <https://github.com/google/leveldb>.
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An SSTable is a file containing an immutable mapping of keys to
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values. Keys are stored in sorted order, with an index at the end
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of the file allowing keys to be located quickly.
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mtbl is not a database library. It does not provide an updateable
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key-value data store, but rather exposes primitives for creating,
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searching and merging SSTable files. Unlike databases which use the
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SSTable data structure internally as part of their data store,
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management of SSTable files -- creation, merging, deletion, combining
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of search results from multiple SSTables -- is left to the discretion
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of the mtbl library user.
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