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title: RocksDB in osquery
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author: icanadi
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Check out [this](https://code.facebook.com/posts/1411870269134471/how-rocksdb-is-used-in-osquery/) blog post by [Mike Arpaia](https://www.facebook.com/mike.arpaia) and [Ted Reed](https://www.facebook.com/treeded) about how osquery leverages RocksDB to build an embedded pub-sub system. This article is a great read and contains insights on how to properly use RocksDB.