diff --git a/gradle/dependencies.gradle b/gradle/dependencies.gradle
index f92b16860aa..46ac7ed37fe 100644
--- a/gradle/dependencies.gradle
+++ b/gradle/dependencies.gradle
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ versions += [
   // PowerMock 1.x doesn't support Java 9, so use PowerMock 2.0.0 beta
   powermock: "2.0.0-beta.5",
   reflections: "0.9.11",
-  rocksDB: "5.8.0",
+  rocksDB: "5.7.3",
   scalatest: "3.0.4",
   scoverage: "1.3.1",
   slf4j: "1.7.25",
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 c219314f568..ea01694b09b 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
@@ -269,6 +269,11 @@ public class RocksDBStore<K, V> implements KeyValueStore<K, V> {
                 } catch (RocksDBException e) {
                     throw new ProcessorStateException("Error while range compacting during restoring  store " + this.name, e);
                 }
+
+                // we need to re-open with the old num.levels again, this is a workaround
+                // until https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/2740 is merged in rocksdb
+                close();
+                openDB(internalProcessorContext);
             }
         }