Rust-centric LMDB abstractions with minimal overhead. These libraries enable the storage of various Rust types within LMDB, extending support to include Serde-compatible types. It supports not only the LMDB mdb.master branch but also the mdb.master3 branch, which features encryption-at-rest.

Here is an example on how to store and read entries into LMDB in a safe and ACID way. For usage examples, see examples/. To see more advanced usage techniques go check our Cookbook.

use std::fs;
use std::path::Path;
use heed::{EnvOpenOptions, Database};
use heed::types::*;
fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let env = unsafe { EnvOpenOptions::new().open("my-first-db")? };
    // We open the default unnamed database
    let mut wtxn = env.write_txn()?;
    let db: Database<Str, U32<byteorder::NativeEndian>> = env.create_database(&mut wtxn, None)?;
    // We open a write transaction
    db.put(&mut wtxn, "seven", &7)?;
    db.put(&mut wtxn, "zero", &0)?;
    db.put(&mut wtxn, "five", &5)?;
    db.put(&mut wtxn, "three", &3)?;
    wtxn.commit()?;
    // We open a read transaction to check if those values are now available
    let mut rtxn = env.read_txn()?;
    let ret = db.get(&rtxn, "zero")?;
    assert_eq!(ret, Some(0));
    let ret = db.get(&rtxn, "five")?;
    assert_eq!(ret, Some(5));
    Ok(())
}

The heed and heed3 crates manage a shared codebase. Within the heed3 folder, you can find the Cargo.toml specific to the heed3 crate. To facilitate work on heed3, utilize the convert-to-heed3.sh script.

This script conveniently moves the heed3/Cargo.toml file to the heed/ folder, updates the heed:: references to heed3::, and generates a commit for easy rollback if needed.

You can use this command to clone the repository:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/meilisearch/heed.git
cd heed
cargo build

However, if you already cloned it and forgot to initialize the submodules, execute the following command:

git submodule update --init