BALBOA-ROCKSDB(1)

🦋 balboa-rocksdb(1) — the User Commands glow-up 🦋

okay so before we even start: this is a section 1 manual page (User Commands, iykyk), and the command we're obsessing over is balboa-rocksdb. grab a strawberry 🍓, sit down, and let's get into it.

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✨ NAME ✨

balboa-rocksdb — the RocksDB backend for balboa, bestie 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

balboa-rocksdb [options]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so balboa-rocksdb is literally a pdns database backend for balboa. that's the whole vibe. it shows up, it handles your database, it slays. 👑

here's everything it takes, one flag at a time, no cap:

• -h — display help. your little "what does anything mean" button 🫶
• -D — daemonize (default: off). off is the default, so it just… stays right there with you unless you ask otherwise.
• -d <path> — path to the rocksdb database (default: /tmp/balboa-rocksdb)
• -l — listen address (default: 127.0.0.1)
• -p — listen port (default: 4242)
• -v — increase verbosity; can be passed multiple times. yes bestie, stack them. more -v, more talking 📢
• -S — disable signal handling
• -R — disable engine stats reporter
• -j — connection throttle limit, maximum concurrent connections (default: 64)
• --membudget <memory-in-bytes> — rocksdb membudget option (value: 134217728)
• --parallelism <number-of-threads> — rocksdb parallelism option (value: 8)
• --max_log_file_size <size> — rocksdb log file size option (value: 10485760)
• --max_open_files <number> — rocksdb max number of open files (value: 300)
• --keep_log_file_num <number> — rocksdb max number of log files (value: 2)
• --database_path <path> — same as -d. two names, one job, iconic honestly 💖
• --version — show version then exit. a quick lil mic drop and it's gone ✨

ngl, --database_path and -d are the same thing — pick whichever one your fingers feel like typing, they're not gonna fight about it.

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🌈 this was balboa-rocksdb from balboa-rocksdb v2.0.0, dated March 2026 — go be the main character of your own database 💜🦋