[packetslave]

Building a distributed RocksDB-based system is also a fun project... and practical, too! Large swaths of Facebook services are built on top of ZippyDB, which is basically "distributed RocksDB as a service"

[LAC-Tech]

I'd be curious to hear more about this. KV stores as a basis for distributed databases are really interesting.

[packetslave]

Here's a FB engineering blog post from 2021 that covers ZippyDB pretty well. https://engineering.fb.com/2021/08/06/core-data/zippydb/

[yawgmoth]

https://www.igvita.com/2012/02/06/sstable-and-log-structured...

May be of interest to you