Quick Start

This section describes how to run YCSB on RocksDB running locally (within the same JVM). NOTE: RocksDB is an embedded database and so articles like How to run in parallel are not applicable here.

1. Set Up YCSB

Clone the YCSB git repository and compile:

git clone https://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB.git
cd YCSB
mvn clean package

2. Run YCSB

Now you are ready to run! First, load the data:

./bin/ycsb load rocksdb -s -P workloads/workloada -p rocksdb.dir=/tmp/ycsb-rocksdb-data

Then, run the workload:

./bin/ycsb run rocksdb -s -P workloads/workloada -p rocksdb.dir=/tmp/ycsb-rocksdb-data

RocksDB Configuration Parameters

• rocksdb.dir - (required) A path to a folder to hold the RocksDB data files.
  • EX. /tmp/ycsb-rocksdb-data