Independent datastore in a network routing environment

A system comprising:

• a publisher device in a network computing environment, the publisher device being a switch or router and executing a first border gateway protocol (BGP) instance;
• a subscriber device in the network computing environment;
• and
• a datastore independent of the publisher device and the subscriber device, the datastore comprising one or more processors in a processing platform configurable to execute instructions stored in non-transitory computer readable storage media, the non-transitory computer readable storage media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform a method comprising:
• receiving data from the publisher device, the data comprising one or more of state information for the publisher device or best path information determined by the publisher device;
• storing the data across one or more of a plurality of shared storage devices by storing the one or more of the state information for the publisher device or the best path information in a database in the datastore, the one or more of the state information for the publisher device or the best path information being partitioned according to a database schema;
• and
• providing the data to the subscriber device;
• wherein the publisher device is configured to not locally store the state information for the publisher device or the best path information.