> They began as the embedded storage layer for some bigger thing. I immediately thought of Kafka's streaming query stuff when I read the headline (ksqlDB). I'

> They began as the embedded storage layer for some bigger thing. I immediately thought of Kafka's streaming query stuff when I read the headline (ksqlDB). I'm not sure if that's the origin story of RocksDB, but it's the storage engine underlying that streaming query tooling in Kafka's ecosystem.