How teams scaled RocksDB: 3 real case studies
3 of the 73 engineering write-ups in our database mention RocksDB in their stack. They come from 3 companies (Datadog, LinkedIn and Meta) and were published between 2016 and 2024. Each card below links to our short summary and the original post.
Datadog · 2024
Timeseries indexing at scale
Datadog redesigned its timeseries indexing to handle a large jump in ingested data.
Meta · 2021
ZippyDB: Facebook's key value store
Meta's general-purpose distributed key-value store built on RocksDB, with shard management and configurable consistency.
LinkedIn · 2016
FollowFeed: LinkedIn's Feed Made Faster and Smarter
LinkedIn moved its feed to a fan-out-on-read system that keeps member timelines in memory and on RocksDB.
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