diff --git a/gradle/dependencies.gradle b/gradle/dependencies.gradle
index 8dcf7af2f2..5d56f19325 100644
--- a/gradle/dependencies.gradle
+++ b/gradle/dependencies.gradle
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ versions += [
   owaspDepCheckPlugin: "6.0.3",
   powermock: "2.0.9",
   reflections: "0.9.12",
-  rocksDB: "5.18.4",
+  rocksDB: "6.19.3",
   scalaCollectionCompat: "2.3.0",
   scalafmt: "1.5.1",
   scalaJava8Compat : "0.9.1",
diff --git a/streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/state/internals/RocksDBGenericOptionsToDbOptionsColumnFamilyOptionsAdapter.java b/streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/state/internals/RocksDBGenericOptionsToDbOptionsColumnFamilyOptionsAdapter.java
index 2e2cb41100..ae08255fb6 100644
--- a/streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/state/internals/RocksDBGenericOptionsToDbOptionsColumnFamilyOptionsAdapter.java
+++ b/streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/state/internals/RocksDBGenericOptionsToDbOptionsColumnFamilyOptionsAdapter.java
@@ -123,11 +123,12 @@ public class RocksDBGenericOptionsToDbOptionsColumnFamilyOptionsAdapter extends
         // (3) skipping because, not done in actual PrepareForBulkLoad() code in https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/blob/master/options/options.cc
         //columnFamilyOptions.setMemTableConfig(new VectorMemTableConfig());
         // (4-5) below:
-        dbOptions.setMaxBackgroundFlushes(4);
+       /* dbOptions.setMaxBackgroundFlushes(4);
         columnFamilyOptions.setDisableAutoCompactions(true);
         columnFamilyOptions.setLevel0FileNumCompactionTrigger(1 << 30);
         columnFamilyOptions.setLevel0SlowdownWritesTrigger(1 << 30);
-        columnFamilyOptions.setLevel0StopWritesTrigger(1 << 30);
+        columnFamilyOptions.setLevel0StopWritesTrigger(1 << 30);*/
+	super.prepareForBulkLoad();
         return this;
     }
 
@@ -185,7 +186,7 @@ public class RocksDBGenericOptionsToDbOptionsColumnFamilyOptionsAdapter extends
     }
 
     @Override
-    public Options setComparator(final AbstractComparator<? extends AbstractSlice<?>> comparator) {
+    public Options setComparator(final AbstractComparator comparator) {
         columnFamilyOptions.setComparator(comparator);
         return this;
     }
@@ -342,6 +343,7 @@ public class RocksDBGenericOptionsToDbOptionsColumnFamilyOptionsAdapter extends
         return this;
     }
 
+    @Deprecated
     @Override
     public int maxBackgroundCompactions() {
         return dbOptions.maxBackgroundCompactions();
@@ -358,6 +360,7 @@ public class RocksDBGenericOptionsToDbOptionsColumnFamilyOptionsAdapter extends
         return dbOptions.statistics();
     }
 
+    @Deprecated
     @Override
     public void setBaseBackgroundCompactions(final int baseBackgroundCompactions) {
         dbOptions.setBaseBackgroundCompactions(baseBackgroundCompactions);
@@ -368,6 +371,7 @@ public class RocksDBGenericOptionsToDbOptionsColumnFamilyOptionsAdapter extends
         return dbOptions.baseBackgroundCompactions();
     }
 
+    @Deprecated
     @Override
     public Options setMaxBackgroundCompactions(final int maxBackgroundCompactions) {
         dbOptions.setMaxBackgroundCompactions(maxBackgroundCompactions);
@@ -375,8 +379,9 @@ public class RocksDBGenericOptionsToDbOptionsColumnFamilyOptionsAdapter extends
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void setMaxSubcompactions(final int maxSubcompactions) {
+    public Options setMaxSubcompactions(final int maxSubcompactions) {
         dbOptions.setMaxSubcompactions(maxSubcompactions);
+	return this;
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -384,11 +389,13 @@ public class RocksDBGenericOptionsToDbOptionsColumnFamilyOptionsAdapter extends
         return dbOptions.maxSubcompactions();
     }
 
+    @Deprecated
     @Override
     public int maxBackgroundFlushes() {
         return dbOptions.maxBackgroundFlushes();
     }
 
+    @Deprecated
     @Override
     public Options setMaxBackgroundFlushes(final int maxBackgroundFlushes) {
         dbOptions.setMaxBackgroundFlushes(maxBackgroundFlushes);
diff --git a/streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/state/internals/RocksDBStore.java b/streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/state/internals/RocksDBStore.java
index e1c5df31d0..5b2b9cc7eb 100644
--- a/streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/state/internals/RocksDBStore.java
+++ b/streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/state/internals/RocksDBStore.java
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ public class RocksDBStore implements KeyValueStore<Bytes, byte[]>, BatchWritingS
         tableConfig.setBlockSize(BLOCK_SIZE);
 
         filter = new BloomFilter();
-        tableConfig.setFilter(filter);
+        tableConfig.setFilterPolicy(filter);
 
         userSpecifiedOptions.optimizeFiltersForHits();
         userSpecifiedOptions.setTableFormatConfig(tableConfig);