Why Apache Kafka Streams uses RocksDB and if how is it possible to change it?
RocksDB is used for several (internal) reasons (as you mentioned already for example its performance). Conceptually, Kafka Streams does not need RocksDB — it is used as internal key-value cache and any other store offering similar functionality would work, too. Comment from @miguno below (rephrased): One important advantage of RocksDB in contrast to pure in-memory … Read more