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 ## RocksDB: A Persistent Key-Value Store for Flash and RAM Storage
 
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 RocksDB is developed and maintained by Facebook Database Engineering Team.
 It is built on on earlier work on LevelDB by Sanjay Ghemawat (sanjay@google.com)
 and Jeff Dean (jeff@google.com)