This is not my experience. I've been running RocksDB for 4 years on thousands of machines, each storing terabytes of data, and I haven't seen a single correctness issue caused by RocksDB.
The benchmark doesn't accurately represent the real-world database performance because the dataset is too small (roughly half a gigabyte based on [1]?), meaning it fits into the page cache bypassing disk I/O.
prost is the most widely used Protobuf implementation in Rust, maintained by the Tokio organization. prost generates structs and serialization/deserialization code for you.
easyproto according to GitHib Search is used only by two projects. easyproto provides primitives for serializing and deserializing Protobuf, and requires hand writing code to do both.
A fair comparison would be prost vs google.golang.org/protobuf, or easyproto vs parts of quick-protobuf.
In most cases you can make Go as fast as Rust, but from my experience writing performance-sensitive code in Go requires significantly larger time investment and overall requires deeper language expertise. Pebble (RocksDB replacement in Go by CockroachDB) is a good example of this, the codebase is littered with hand-inlined[1] functions, hand-unrolled loops and it's not[2] even using Go memory management for performance critical parts, it's using the C memory allocator and manual memory management.
> After discovering Chrome are eating my old Mac's battery, I turned to using Edge
What? Have they tried using Safari instead of a Chromium based browser? From my experience Safari is by far the best browser on Mac in terms of the energy efficiency.