diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/theodolite.beam.flink.gradle b/theodolite-benchmarks/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/theodolite.beam.flink.gradle
index 3d5ef7f0fdd1b3f89790f4932dfc03deef093aee..55f9cb20aa07a0191b33e2b5c325659c29bf0f8d 100644
--- a/theodolite-benchmarks/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/theodolite.beam.flink.gradle
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/theodolite.beam.flink.gradle
@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@ plugins {
 
 dependencies {
     compile group: 'org.apache.beam', name: 'beam-runners-flink-1.12', version: '2.27.0'
+    compile group: 'org.apache.flink', name: 'flink-statebackend-rocksdb_2.11', version: '1.12.0'
 }
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diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/theodolite.beam.gradle b/theodolite-benchmarks/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/theodolite.beam.gradle
index ad9689a5e63e684a918f726351cad806fc3dc08c..a131d04f2fd4733063bb5aab54ecefbc6c01a0a1 100644
--- a/theodolite-benchmarks/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/theodolite.beam.gradle
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/theodolite.beam.gradle
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ dependencies {
     implementation project(':beam-commons')
 
     implementation group: 'org.apache.beam', name: 'beam-sdks-java-core', version: '2.22.0'
-//    compile group: 'org.apache.beam', name: 'beam-runners-flink-1.12', version: '2.27.0'
 
     implementation('org.apache.beam:beam-sdks-java-io-kafka:2.22.0'){
         exclude group: 'org.apache.kafka', module: 'kafka-clients'