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. ## Facebook 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: 1. MyRocks -- https://github.com/MySQLOnRocksDB/mysql-5.6 2. MongoRocks -- https://github.com/mongodb-partners/mongo-rocks ## LinkedIn Two different use cases at Linkedin are using RocksDB as a storage engine: 1. 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 2. 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 Pinterest's Object Retrieval System uses RocksDB for storage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtFEVEs_2Vo ## Smyte [Smyte](https://www.smyte.com/) uses RocksDB as the storage layer for their core key-value storage, high-performance counters and time-windowed HyperLogLog services. ## Rakuten Marketing [Rakuten Marketing](https://marketing.rakuten.com/) uses RocksDB as the disk cache layer for the real-time bidding service in their Performance DSP. ## VWO, Wingify [VWO's](https://vwo.com/) Smart Code checker and URL helper uses RocksDB to store all the URLs where VWO's Smart Code is installed. ## quasardb [quasardb](https://www.quasardb.net) 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](http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/05/application-data-caching-using-ssds.html) uses RocksDB on spinning disks to cache application data. ## TiKV [TiKV](https://github.com/pingcap/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](https://flink.apache.org/news/2016/03/08/release-1.0.0.html) uses RocksDB to store state locally on a machine.