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		PaulWaldman on May 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What every software engineer should know about Apa... Is there a reason Kafka wouldn't choose to leverage an existing mature RDBMS for their table storage instead of rolling their own?

geodel on May 17, 2020 [–]

Well they use rocksDB internally. Though that is not RDBMS.

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