Ask HN: Is there any standalone RocksDB server?

Cockroach uses RocksDB and can be consumed like Redis:

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/architecture/stora...

RocksDB is an embedded KV store, so unlike Redis it's not meant to be consumed over the network. Facebook wrote it as a backend for MySQL (see MyRocks - http://myrocks.io/).

Think of it more as a SQLite use case (which is an embedded database). Just like SQLite, it has a variety of bindings (ex. https://github.com/evernym/python-rocksdb for Python bindings).

You can use kyoto tycoon http://fallabs.com/kyototycoon/spex.html . Kyoto tycoon is a http interface for another Key/Value storage kyoto cabinet. There is way to put any other KV storage behind same interface("Pluggable Database" section)

Kafka streaming also uses RocksDB under the hood.

Try KSQL (https://www.confluent.io/product/ksql/ ) for a SQL-like interface to stream data from Kafka.