--- title: RocksDB Reviews meta\_title: 'RocksDB Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 10 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how RocksDB works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 10 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-06-14' parent\_category: name: NoSQL Databases url: https://www.g2.com/categories/nosql-databases --- # RocksDB Reviews & Product Details A persistent key-value store for fast storage environments * * * Seller [Meta Platforms, Inc](https://www.g2.com/sellers/meta-platforms-inc) Discussions [RocksDB Community](https://www.g2.com/products/rocksdb/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Redis Software](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Redis Software") Redis Software 4.5/5(136) ](https://www.g2.com/products/redis-software/reviews) [ ![BoltDB](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "BoltDB") BoltDB 4.4/5(18) ](https://www.g2.com/products/boltdb/reviews) [ ![Amazon DynamoDB](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Amazon DynamoDB") Amazon DynamoDB 4.4/5(529) ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-web-services-aws-amazon-dynamodb/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/rocksdb/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 10 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![SreenivasaRao V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SreenivasaRao V.") SV SreenivasaRao V. Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/6/2021 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "RocksDB" 5/5 What do you like best about RocksDB? The way it mange and compress the data and they way it retrieves faster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RocksDB? As most of the real world problems need cluster level reads n writes . May be we can extend the RocksDB capability by parallel reads n writes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RocksDB solving and how is that benefiting you? We were used the RocksDB solutions for creating the Credit Reporting for faster storage n snapshots with reasonable storage n price Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/20/2021 "RocksDb is one of the best NoSQL databases" 4/5 What do you like best about RocksDB? I love the comparator functions. I could perform a lot of optimisations in search operations due to that. It's pretty fast in retrieval of data as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RocksDB? Marshal and unmarshall of byte data is a bit annoying at times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering RocksDB: It's a good store for fast retrieval of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RocksDB solving and how is that benefiting you? I use Rocksdb to store data in a distributed environment where many clients request for a limited set of resources. Benchmarking showed that storage and retrieval were fast and that slowness was caused by rpc calls only, whenever it happened. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Nihar N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nihar N.") NN Nihar N. Staff Engineer in Seagate Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/7/2021 "Nihar Nayak" 4.5/5 What do you like best about RocksDB? Its Write ops s very fast. It is well optimized for high Write Ops workload. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RocksDB? When Compaction threads awaking, they are eating lots CPU. also server is getting slower. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RocksDB solving and how is that benefiting you? We are using key-value storage for the temporary cache. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") IF Verified User in Financial Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/27/2021 "It's fast and efficient." 4.5/5 What do you like best about RocksDB? Speed is what I like the most about RocksDB. Reading and writing data is very fast compared to other types of storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RocksDB? What I don't like is there's no automatic replication of data to multiple servers. We have to manually set up a process to copy data to each machine if we want to have no single point of failure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RocksDB solving and how is that benefiting you? I have to store 500 million key-value records and want a fast lookup solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mykola B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mykola B.") MB Mykola B. Lead Software Developer / System Architect Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/6/2021 "Uses in prototype of dustributed file system" 5/5 What do you like best about RocksDB? Speed quite good Quite reliable system Quite bug community Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RocksDB? Some api is missed Only key value sometimes is not enough Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RocksDB solving and how is that benefiting you? As core storage of dustributed file system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") CR Verified User in Retail Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/8/2021 "Used RocksDB in a project and had very good experience." 5/5 What do you like best about RocksDB? Really impressed with the speed. We processed almost 1Billion rows in RocksDB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RocksDB? Backup of the database is not easy. We tried moving to the new system and it was not an easy process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RocksDB solving and how is that benefiting you? Used RocksDB as a middleware cache for ETL applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain") UL Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/21/2021 "Best inmemory database" 4.5/5 What do you like best about RocksDB? It has faster data loading, faster replication Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RocksDB? Since it's not a SQL database, using it for structured data is difficult Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RocksDB solving and how is that benefiting you? Storing supply chain data for the backend, it's really fast and durable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Hospital & Health Care](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Hospital & Health Care") IH Verified User in Hospital & Health Care Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/5/2021 "It is good when somebody is building write heavy systems other than read heavy systems" 3.5/5 What do you like best about RocksDB? It is not just a typical LSM based database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RocksDB? Read throughput of the rocks db when the writes are offline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RocksDB solving and how is that benefiting you? We are building shards where we need a embedded database for storing patient as well as document info. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") IC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/11/2021 "RocksDb is really easy to use" 4/5 What do you like best about RocksDB? its easy to understand and give great performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RocksDB? Translating higher level SQL operations into K and V operations is difficult Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RocksDB solving and how is that benefiting you? Storing real time data in memory for recovery was really performant and easy to store Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Artem R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Artem R.") AR Artem R. Java Developer Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/14/2016 "RocksDb - Specify java docs plz" 5/5 What do you like best about RocksDB? Log-structured merge tree implementation. Once you've got acquainted with it, you could do really awesome things. And the latency numbers are great. Although RocksDb is not of those that are easy to use, still if you would manage to master it you would gain a reliable, solid instrument not a kind of a swiss knife but rather machete like that would allow you to reach any of your engineering goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RocksDB? Pure java documentation. Product requires being familiar with some advanced c++ and good understanding of what is hidden under the hood. High entry level. One simply can't use it for 100% 'from the box'. However, I am speaking only about the java programmers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering RocksDB: Get familiar with code and lst. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RocksDB solving and how is that benefiting you? Low latency scalable web app in an advertising business with some machine learning implementation. The app actively uses a database. The major requirement is high performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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