Posted on Aug 24

SledoView: A Powerful, Free Open-source, CLI Tool for Exploring SLED Databases

If you’ve ever worked with SLED — the high-performance embedded database for Rust — you know it’s fast, reliable, and perfect for many projects.

But when it comes to browsing and inspecting your SLED database files, things can get tricky… until now.

Meet SledoView — a free, Rust-based open-source CLI tool that makes exploring SLED databases easy, safe, and even fun.

Official website: https://sledoview.greq.me/

✨ Why SledoView?

SledoView is designed to give developers a smooth, interactive terminal experience for viewing and analyzing SLED databases.

Key Features:

🔍 REPL – Browse your database with a friendly terminal interface.
📊 Statistics – Quickly see total record counts and key info.
🔎 Pattern Matching – Search keys and values with glob patterns or regex.
🎨 Colorized Output – Beautiful, readable terminal output.

📦 Installation

Download and install SledoView from the project's latest releases

Or build from source

git clone https://github.com/sgchris/sledoview cd sledoview cargo build --release

Usage

sledoview /path/to/your/sled.db

Available commands

Command	Description	Example(s)
`list`	Lists keys in the current tree. Supports optional glob or regex filtering.	`list` — lists all keys `list user_*` — lists keys starting with `user_`
`get`	Retrieves and displays the value for a given key.	`get user_001` — shows the value for `user_001`
`set`	Inserts or updates a key-value pair in the current tree.	`set user_001 '{"name":"Alice"}'` — sets JSON value `set counter 42` — sets numeric value
`delete`	Removes a key (and its value) from the current tree.	`delete user_001` — deletes the key `user_001`
`trees`	Lists all trees in the database.	`trees` — displays available trees
`select`	Switches the active tree for subsequent commands.	`select sessions` — changes active tree to `sessions`
`unselect`	Returns to the default tree (removes active tree selection).	`unselect` — goes back to the default tree