3. ZippyDB -- Facebook's distributed key-value store with Paxos-style replication, built on top of RocksDB.[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfiN7pG0D0khtt
4. Laser -- Laser is a high query throughput, low (millisecond) latency, key-value storage service built on top of RocksDB.[1]
[Bilibili](bilibili.com) [uses](https://www.alluxio.io/blog/when-ai-meets-alluxio-at-bilibili-building-an-efficient-ai-platform-for-data-preprocessing-and-model-training/) Alluxio to speed up its ML training workloads, and Alluxio uses RocksDB to store its filesystem metadata, so Bilibili uses RocksDB.
Bilibili's [real-time platform](https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/architecture-and-practices-of-bilibilis-real-time-platform_596676) uses Flink, and uses RocksDB as Flink's state store.
## TikTok
TikTok, or its parent company ByteDance, uses RocksDB as the storage engine for some storage systems, such as its distributed graph database [ByteGraph](https://vldb.org/pvldb/vol15/p3306-li.pdf).
Also, TikTok uses [Alluxio](alluxio.io) to [speed up Presto queries](https://www.alluxio.io/resources/videos/improving-presto-performance-with-alluxio-at-tiktok/), and Alluxio stores the files' metadata in RocksDB.
## FoundationDB
[FoundationDB](https://www.foundationdb.org/) [uses](https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/blob/377f1f692da6ab2fe5bdac57035651db3e5fb66d/fdbserver/KeyValueStoreRocksDB.actor.cpp) RocksDB to implement a [key-value store interface](https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/blob/377f1f692da6ab2fe5bdac57035651db3e5fb66d/fdbserver/KeyValueStoreRocksDB.actor.cpp#L1127) in its server backend.
## Apple
Apple [uses](https://opensource.apple.com/projects/foundationdb/) FoundationDB, so it also uses RocksDB.
## Snowflake
Snowflake [uses](https://www.snowflake.com/blog/how-foundationdb-powers-snowflake-metadata-forward/) FoundationDB, so it also uses RocksDB.
The Bing search engine from Microsoft uses RocksDB as the storage engine for its web data platform: https://blogs.bing.com/Engineering-Blog/october-2021/RocksDB-in-Microsoft-Bing
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
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
[Apache Doris](http://doris.apache.org/master/en/) is a MPP analytical database engine released by Baidu. It [uses RocksDB](http://doris.apache.org/master/en/administrator-guide/operation/tablet-meta-tool.html) to manage its tablet's metadata.
CockroachDB is an open-source geo-replicated transactional database. They are using RocksDB as their storage engine. Check out their github: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach
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
[Alluxio](https://www.alluxio.io) uses RocksDB to serve and scale file system metadata to beyond 1 Billion files. The detailed design and implementation is described in this engineering blog:
[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.
[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.
[Netflix](http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/05/application-data-caching-using-ssds.html) Netflix uses RocksDB on AWS EC2 instances with local SSD drives to cache application data.
[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.
[Databricks](https://www.databricks.com/) [replaces AWS RDS with TiDB](https://www.pingcap.com/case-study/how-databricks-tackles-the-scalability-limit-with-a-mysql-alternative/) for scalability, so it uses RocksDB.
[Dgraph](https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph) is an open-source, scalable, distributed, low latency, high throughput Graph database .They use RocksDB to store state locally on a machine.
[360](http://www.360.cn/) [Pika](https://github.com/Qihoo360/pika) is a nosql compatible with redis. With the huge amount of data stored, redis may suffer for a capacity bottleneck, and pika was born for solving it. It has widely been used in many companies.
[ProfaneDB](https://profanedb.gitlab.io/) is a database for Protocol Buffers, and uses RocksDB for storage. It is accessible via gRPC, and the schema is defined using directly `.proto` files.
[IOTA Foundation](https://www.iota.org/) is using RocksDB in the [IOTA Reference Implementation (IRI)](https://github.com/iotaledger/iri) to store the local state of the Tangle. The Tangle is the first open-source distributed ledger powering the future of the Internet of Things.
[Avrio Project](http://avrio-project.github.io/avrio.network/) is using RocksDB in [Avrio ](https://github.com/avrio-project/avrio) to store blocks, account balances and data and other blockchain-releated data. Avrio is a multiblockchain decentralized cryptocurrency empowering monetary transactions.
[Crux](https://github.com/juxt/crux) is a document database that uses RocksDB for local [EAV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity%E2%80%93attribute%E2%80%93value_model) index storage to enable point-in-time bitemporal Datalog queries. The "unbundled" architecture uses Kafka to provide horizontal scalability.
[Nebula Graph](https://github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula) is a distributed, scalable, lightning-fast, open source graph database capable of hosting super large scale graphs with dozens of billions of vertices (nodes) and trillions of edges, with milliseconds of latency.
[YugabyteDB](https://www.yugabyte.com/) is an open source, high performance, distributed SQL database that uses RocksDB as its storage layer. For more information, please see https://github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db/.
[ArangoDB](https://www.arangodb.com/) is a native multi-model database with flexible data models for documents, graphs, and key-values, for building high performance applications using a convenient SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions. It uses RocksDB as its storage engine.
[Qdrant](https://qdrant.tech/) is an open source vector database, it [uses](https://qdrant.tech/documentation/concepts/storage/) RocksDB as its persistent storage.
[Milvus](https://milvus.io/) is an open source vector database for unstructured data. It uses RocksDB not only as one of the supported kv storage engines, but also as a message queue.
[Kafka](https://kafka.apache.org/) is an open-source distributed event streaming platform, it uses RocksDB to store state in Kafka Streams: https://www.confluent.io/blog/how-to-tune-rocksdb-kafka-streams-state-stores-performance/.
[Solana](https://github.com/solana-labs/solana) is a fast, secure, scalable, and decentralized blockchain. It uses RocksDB as the underlying storage for its ledger store.
[Apache Kvrocks](https://github.com/apache/kvrocks) is an open-source distributed key-value NoSQL database built on top of RocksDB. It serves as a cost-saving and capacity-increasing alternative drop-in replacement for Redis.
