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This document lists users of RocksDB and their use cases. If you are using RocksDB, please open a pull request and add yourself to the list.
At Facebook, we use RocksDB as a backend for many different stateful services. We're also experimenting with running RocksDB as a storage engine for two databases:
- MyRocks -- https://github.com/MySQLOnRocksDB/mysql-5.6
- MongoRocks -- https://github.com/mongodb-partners/mongo-rocks
Two different use cases at Linkedin are using RocksDB as a storage engine:
- LinkedIn's follow feed for storing user's activities. Check out the blog post: https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2016/03/followfeed--linkedin-s-feed-made-faster-and-smarter
- Apache Samza, open source framework for stream processing
Learn more about those use cases in a Tech Talk by Ankit Gupta and Naveen Somasundaram: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plqVp_OnSzg
Yahoo
Yahoo is using RocksDB as a storage engine for their biggest distributed data store Sherpa. Learn more about it here: http://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/120730204806/sherpa-scales-new-heights
CockroachDB
CockroachDB is an open-source geo-replicated transactional database (still in development). They are using RocksDB as their storage engine. Check out their github: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach
DNANexus
DNANexus is using RocksDB to speed up processing of genomics data. You can learn more from this great blog post by Mike Lin: http://devblog.dnanexus.com/faster-bam-sorting-with-samtools-and-rocksdb/
Iron.io
Iron.io is using RocksDB as a storage engine for their distributed queueing system. Learn more from Tech Talk by Reed Allman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTjt6oj-RL4
Tango Me
Tango is using RocksDB as a graph storage to store all users' connection data and other social activity data.
Turn
Turn is using RocksDB as a storage layer for their key/value store, serving at peak 2.4MM QPS out of different datacenters. Check out our RocksDB Protobuf merge operator at: https://github.com/vladb38/rocksdb_protobuf
Santanader UK/Cloudera Profession Services
Check out their blog post: http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2015/08/inside-santanders-near-real-time-data-ingest-architecture/
Airbnb
Airbnb is using RocksDB as a storage engine for their personalized search service. You can learn more about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASQ6XMtogMs
Pinterest's Object Retrieval System uses RocksDB for storage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtFEVEs_2Vo
Smyte
Smyte uses RocksDB as the storage layer for their core key-value storage, high-performance counters and time-windowed HyperLogLog services.
Rakuten Marketing
Rakuten Marketing uses RocksDB as the disk cache layer for the real-time bidding service in their Performance DSP.
VWO, Wingify
VWO's Smart Code checker and URL helper uses RocksDB to store all the URLs where VWO's Smart Code is installed.
quasardb
quasardb is a high-performance, distributed, transactional key-value database that integrates well with in-memory analytics engines such as Apache Spark. quasardb uses a heavily tuned RocksDB as its persistence layer.
Netflix
Netflix uses RocksDB on spinning disks to cache application data.
TiKV
TiKV is a GEO-replicated, high-performance, distributed, transactional key-value database. TiKV is powered by Rust and Raft. TiKV uses RocksDB as its persistence layer.
Apache Flink
Apache Flink uses RocksDB to store state locally on a machine.