{
  "slug": "rocksdb-manifest",
  "term": "RocksDB MANIFEST",
  "aliases": [
    "MANIFEST (RocksDB)"
  ],
  "definition": "RocksDB MANIFEST is the version-edit log mechanism used to recover the database's recorded state, with CURRENT identifying the active manifest log.",
  "note": "It tracks state such as table-file membership rather than duplicating the user-write WAL. Recovery applies an atomic group of version edits only when that group is complete. A file's presence alone does not prove its membership in the recovered database. [manifest]",
  "related": [
    "rocksdb-atomic-flush",
    "rocksdb-column-family",
    "sstable",
    "write-ahead-log"
  ],
  "citations": [
    {
      "id": "manifest",
      "title": "RocksDB project. MANIFEST: CURRENT, VersionEdits and atomic groups.",
      "url": "https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki/MANIFEST",
      "accessed": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "id": "hesela",
      "title": "RocksDB: a WAL sync is not a memtable flush",
      "url": "https://hesela.com/analyses/rocksdb-wal-flush-manifest-boundaries/",
      "accessed": "2026-10-14"
    }
  ],
  "status": "shipping",
  "advantages": [],
  "limitations": [],
  "supersedes": [],
  "supersededBy": [],
  "firstSeen": null,
  "lastSeen": null,
  "updated": "2026-10-14"
}