diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index b34814b..304ba54 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
 [submodule "msquic"]
 	path = msquic
 	url = https://github.com/microsoft/msquic.git
-[submodule "rocksdb"]
-	path = rocksdb
-	url = https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb.git
diff --git a/rocksdb b/rocksdb
deleted file mode 160000
index 79790cf..0000000
--- a/rocksdb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 79790cf2a80fb5e5b6799ebd69d3fb2ebe71d612
diff --git a/scripts/rocksdb.sh b/scripts/rocksdb.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 47c7d14..0000000
--- a/scripts/rocksdb.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -e
-
-
-# Setup rocksdb
-CWD=$(pwd)
-
-system=$(uname -s)
-
-arch=$(uname -m)
-
-out_dir=${CWD}/build/${system}-${arch}
-
-mkdir -p ${out_dir}
-
-cd rocksdb || { echo "directory not found"; exit 1; }
-
-make static_lib
-
-strip -S librocksdb.a
-cp librocksdb.a ${out_dir}
-
-echo "rocksdb built successfully"