Yes, that is correct. 2018-03-05 8:57 GMT-08:00 Jayant Ameta <wittyam...@gmail.com>:
> 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? >>> >> >> >
