[netvarun]

Congrats to the team. IIRC their CTO was the creator of RocksDB.

[usrnm]

RocksDB is a fork of LevelDB created by Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat at Google.

[flakiness]

LevelDB was like their hobby project and was built mostly for Chrome's Indexed DB. RocksDB brought it to a much higher level with a lot of dedication.