---
name: "balboa-rocksdb"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "balboa-backend-rocksdb"
version: "2.0.0+ds-7+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/balboa-rocksdb"
---

# balboa-rocksdb(1)

RocksDB backend for balboa

## NAME

balboa-rocksdb - RocksDB backend for balboa

## SYNOPSIS

**balboa-rocksdb** \[*options*\]

## DESCRIPTION

\`balboa-rocksdb\` provides a pdns database backend for \`balboa\`

**-h** display help

**-D** daemonize (default: off)

**-d** \<path\> path to 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

**-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\`

**--version** show version then exit