Building A Relational Database Using Kafka

In a previous post, I showed how Kafka can be used as the persistent storage for an embedded key-value store, called KCache. Once you have a key-value store, it can be used as the basis for other models such as documents, graphs, and even SQL. For example, CockroachDB is a SQL layer built on top of the RocksDB key-value store and YugaByteDB is both a document and SQL layer built on top of RocksDB.

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