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by rroblak 3273 days ago
One use case is maintaining node-level state for stream processing systems. This gives you a scaleable way to do stateful computations (such as aggregations) without the complexity and performance cost of hitting a remote data store. Such support is built into Samza using RocksDB. [1]

[1] http://samza.apache.org/learn/documentation/latest/container...