Hi, I remember a couple of years ago there was some noise about Rocksandra (Cassandra using rocksdb for storage) and opening up Cassandra to alternate storage mechanisms.
I haven't seen anything about it for a while now though. The last commit to Rocksandra on github was in Nov 2019. The associated JIRA items (CASSANDRA-13474 and CASSANDRA-13476) haven't had any activity since 2019 either. I was wondering whether anyone knew anything about it. Was it decided that this wasn't a good idea after all (the alleged performance differences weren't worth it...or were exaggerated)? Or is it just that it still may be a good idea, but there are no resources available to make this happen (e.g. perhaps the original sponsor moved onto other things)? I ask because I was looking at RocksDB/Kafka Streams for another project (which may replace some functionality which currently uses Cassandra)...and was wondering if there could be some important info about RocksDB I may be missing. thanks in advance, Gareth Collins
