In our testing, it’s multiple times faster, especially at scale. RocksDB’s compaction becomes a bottleneck fairly quickly when put under strain for extended per

In our testing, it’s multiple times faster, especially at scale. RocksDB’s compaction becomes a bottleneck fairly quickly when put under strain for extended periods of time. Helium performs much, much better at scale and doesn’t have compaction issues. It’s proprietary, but in my experience it’s money well spent. For the record, we were able to fully saturate a 4xNVMe with a 96 core server using Helium, while RocksDB achieved about 20% of the full NVMe capacity. As with all benchmarks, YMMV.