Oh! Somehow I missed while reading the documentation that RocksDB is embedded in Flink.
Also, irrespective of state backend being filesystem or rocksdb, I'll have to setup a shared filesystem (HDFS, S3, etc). Is my understanding correct? Jayant Ameta On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 9:51 PM, Fabian Hueske <fhue...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > RockDB is an embedded key-value storage that is internally used by Flink. > There is no need to setup a RocksDB database or service yourself. All of > that is done by Flink. > As a Flink user that uses the RockDB state backend, you won't get in touch > with RocksDB itself. > > Besides that, RocksDB is developed by Facebook [1] and is a fairly active > project. > > Best, Fabian > > [1] https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb > > 2018-03-05 3:57 GMT-08:00 Jayant Ameta <wittyam...@gmail.com>: > >> Hi, >> I wanted to know how's the online support and resources for RocksDB? I >> want to use RocksDB as the state backend, but I'm not sure how active the >> community is. Can anyone vouch for it? >> > >
