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Log-structured merge (LSM) trees offer efficient ingestion by appending incoming data, and thus, are widely used as the storage layer of production NoSQL data stores. To enable competitive read performance, LSM-trees periodically…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Subhadeep Sarkar , Dimitris Staratzis , Zichen Zhu , Manos Athanassoulis

The log-structured merge tree (LSM-tree) is widely employed to build key-value (KV) stores. LSM-tree organizes multiple levels in memory and on disk. The compaction of LSM-tree, which is used to redeploy KV pairs between on-disk levels in…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Yanpeng Hu , Li Zhu , Lei Jia , Chundong Wang

LSM-tree is a widely adopted data structure in modern key-value store systems that optimizes write performance in write-heavy applications by using append writes to achieve sequential writes. However, the unpredictability of LSM-tree…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yina Lv , Qiao Li , Quanqing Xu , Congming Gao , Chuanhui Yang , Xiaoli Wang , Chun Jason Xue

Modern key-value storage engines built on Log-Structured Merge-trees (LSM-trees), such as RocksDB and LevelDB, rely heavily on the performance of their compaction operations, which are impacted by a complex set of interdependent…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jiabiao Ding , Yina Lv , Qiao Li , Zhirong Shen , Chun Jason Xue

Scan-based operations, such as backstage compaction and value filtering, have emerged as the main bottleneck for LSM-Trees in supporting contemporary data-intensive applications. For slower external storage devices, such as HDD and SATA…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Jianfeng Huang , Ziyao Wang , Lin Yuan , Jiajie Wen , Yihao Cao , Dongjing Miao , Yong Wang , Jiahao Zhang

Log-Structured Merge (LSM) Trees provide a tiered data storage and retrieval paradigm that is attractive for write-optimized data systems. Maintaining an efficient buffer in memory and deferring updates past their initial write-time, the…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Aron Szanto

The log-structured merge tree (LSM-tree) gains wide popularity in building key-value (KV) stores. It employs logs to back up arriving KV pairs and maintains a few on-disk levels with exponentially increasing capacity limits, resembling a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Yanpeng Hu , Chundong Wang

Compaction is a necessary, but often costly background process in write-optimized data structures like LSM-trees that reorganizes incoming data that is sequentially appended to logs. In this paper, we introduce Transformation-Embedded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Holly Casaletto , Jeff Lefevre , Aldrin Montana , Peter Alvaro

Many applications require update-intensive workloads on spatial objects, e.g., social-network services and shared-riding services that track moving objects. By buffering insert and delete operations in memory, the Log Structured Merge Tree…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Jaewoo Shin , Jianguo Wang , Walid G. Aref

Log-Structured-Merge (LSM) tree-based key value stores are facing critical challenges of fully leveraging the dramatic performance improvements of the underlying storage devices, which makes the compaction operations of LSM key value stores…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Peng Xu , Jiguang Wan , Ping Huang , Xiaogang Yang , Chenlei Tang , Fei Wu , Changsheng Xie

In recent years, the Log Structured Merge (LSM) tree has been widely adopted by NoSQL and NewSQL systems for its superior write performance. Despite its popularity, however, most existing work has focused on LSM-based key-value stores with…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Chen Luo , Michael J. Carey

LSM-based key-value (KV) stores are an important component in modern data infrastructures. However, they suffer from high tail latency, in the order of several seconds, making them less attractive for user-facing applications. In this…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Giorgos Xanthakis , Antonios Katsarakis , Giorgos Saloustros , Angelos Bilas

The growing volume of graph data may exhaust the main memory. It is crucial to design a disk-based graph storage system to ingest updates and analyze graphs efficiently. However, existing dynamic graph storage systems suffer from read or…

Log-Structured Merge-tree-based Key-Value Stores (LSM-KVS) have been optimized and redesigned for disaggregated storage via techniques such as compaction offloading to reduce the network I/Os between compute and storage. However, the…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Qi Lin , Gangqi Huang , Te Guo , Chang Guo , Viraj Thakkar , Zichen Zhu , Jianguo Wang , Zhichao Cao

Data-intensive applications fueled the evolution of log structured merge (LSM) based key-value engines that employ the out-of-place paradigm to support high ingestion rates with low read/write interference. These benefits, however, come at…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Subhadeep Sarkar , Tarikul Islam Papon , Dimitris Staratzis , Manos Athanassoulis

Key-value stores underpin a wide range of applications due to their simplicity and efficiency. Log-Structured Merge Trees (LSM-trees) dominate as their underlying structure, excelling at handling rapidly growing data. Recent research has…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Junfeng Liu , Haoxuan Xie , Siqiang Luo

The development of high-speed storage devices such as NVMe SSDs has shifted the primary I/O bottleneck from hardware to software. Modern database systems also rely on kernel-based I/O paths, where frequent system call invocations and…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Hongsu Byun , Seungjae Lee , Honghyeon Yoo , Myoungjoon Kim , Sungyong Park

Modern databases typically makes use of the Log Structured Merge-Tree for organizing data in indexes, which is a kind of disk-based data structure. It was proposed to efficiently handle frequent update queries (also called update intensive…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Supriya Mishra

Log-structured merge tree (LSM-tree) based key-value stores are widely employed in large-scale storage systems. In the compaction of the key-value store, SSTables are merged with overlapping key ranges and sorted for data queries. This,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Hui Sun , Wei Liu , Jianzhong Huang , Weisong Shi

LSM-tree-based data stores are widely adopted in industries for their excellent performance. As data scales increase, disk-based join operations become indispensable yet costly for the database, making the selection of suitable join methods…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Weiping Yu , Fan Wang , Xuwei Zhang , Siqiang Luo
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