title: Flink with Ceph as the persistent storage
body: <p>Flink documents suggests that Ceph can be used as a persistent storage for states. <a href="https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.3/dev/stream/checkpointing.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.3/dev/stream/checkpointing.html</a></p>
  
  <p>Considering that Ceph is a transactional database, wouldn't it have adverse effect on Flink's performance?</p>