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rosedb is based on bitcask, so bitcask storage model is the basic knowledge(it is simple to understand).

Articles introducing to Bitcask：

https://riak.com/assets/bitcask-intro.pdf

https://medium.com/@arpitbhayani/bitcask-a-log-structured-fast-kv-store-c6c728a9536b

A best practice of bitcask, 300 lines code to understand the main idea of bitcask：

从零实现一个 k-v 存储引擎(Chinese)

https://github.com/roseduan/minidb

Understanding rosedb

You can understand rosedb by following steps:

• How Set and Get work?
• How doRunGC(called merge in paper) operation work?
• Memory and disk layout.