Rediscovering RocksDB – Embedded Storage in Cloud-Native Applications

RocksDB, the embedded key-value store originally developed at Facebook on top of LevelDB, offers a compelling alternative to centralized databases for cloud-native applications. By running inside the application process itself, it eliminates network round trips for short-lived operational state such as workflow checkpoints, session metadata, and processing queues. Systems like Apache Kafka Streams and Apache Flink already use RocksDB as a local state backend to improve throughput and reduce latency. The post argues that while managed distributed databases remain essential for relational queries and centralized governance, moving ephemeral state closer to computation can significantly reduce latency and operational complexity in Kubernetes-based platforms.

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