Tail latency reduction, 20X throughput improvement and 10X CPU reduction with XDP-Rocks XDP-Rocks overcomes software inefficiencies of RocksDB RocksDB, one of the top key value datastores, suffers from high read, write and space amplification leading to lower throughput, higher tail latency, storage overprovisioning and higher SSD wear. It is also bottlenecked by CPU usage due to the sorting, merging and compression needs of the storage engine. Pliops XDP-Rocks, a binary compatible RocksDB library, offloads the software operations to hardware thus bringing the read, write and space amplification to its theoretical minimum. Throughput, tail latency, SSD endurance and scalability of the solution are significantly enhanced. Redis KVRocks Rockset CEPH