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.

Clone the YCSB git repository and compile:

git clone https://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB.git
cd YCSB
mvn -pl site.ycsb:rocksdb-binding -am clean package

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

If rocksdb.optionsfile is given, YCSB will apply all RocksDB options exactly as specified in the options file. Otherwise, YCSB will try to set reasonable defaults.