# RocksDB

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/rocksdb/  
**Website:** https://rocksdb.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

RocksDB is an embeddable persistent key-value store for fast storage, developed at Facebook (Meta) based on LevelDB. It uses a Log-Structured Merge (LSM) tree design optimized for fast, low-latency storage on flash and RAM. RocksDB provides a C++ library with language bindings for Java, Python, Ruby, Rust, and other languages, and is widely used as the storage engine inside databases, data streaming systems, and distributed key-value stores.

## Kin Score — 24.8 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 24.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 21.3 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 3.8 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | documented |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **RocksDB Embedded API** — RocksDB C++ library API providing key-value storage operations including Get, Put, Delete, Merge, iterators, snapshots, column families, transactions, compaction, and backup. Th...
- **RocksJava API** — Official Java bindings for RocksDB providing full access to the RocksDB feature set from Java applications. Used in distributed systems like Apache Kafka Streams, Flink, and Cas...

## Security (1)

- **Rocksdb Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Plans (1)

- **Rocksdb Plans Pricing**

## Tags

RocksDB, Key-Value Store, Embedded Database, Storage Engine, Open-Source

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/rocksdb/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.