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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

The Log Structured Merge Trees (LSM-tree) based key-value stores are widely used in many storage systems to support a variety of operations such as updates, point reads, and range reads. Traditionally, LSM-tree's merge policy organizes data…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Fuheng Zhao , Zach Miller , Leron Reznikov , Divyakant Agrawal , Amr El Abbadi

We describe a consistent hashing algorithm which performs multiple lookups per key in a hash table of nodes. It requires no additional storage beyond the hash table, and achieves a peak-to-average load ratio of 1 + epsilon with just 1 +…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Ben Appleton , Michael O'Reilly

In the last decade, key-value data storage systems have gained significantly more interest from academia and industry. These systems face numerous challenges concerning storage space- and read optimization. There exists a large potential…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Martin Weise

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

A minimal perfect hash function (MPHF) maps a set of n keys to {1, ..., n} without collisions. Such functions find widespread application e.g. in bioinformatics and databases. In this paper we revisit PTHash - a construction technique…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Stefan Hermann , Hans-Peter Lehmann , Giulio Ermanno Pibiri , Peter Sanders , Stefan Walzer

As storage systems become increasingly heterogeneous and complex, it adds burdens on DBAs, causing suboptimal performance even after a lot of human efforts have been made. In addition, existing monitoring-based storage management by access…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Tian Luo , Rubao Lee , Michael Mesnier , Feng Chen , Xiaodong Zhang

SSDs are emerging storage devices which unlike HDDs, do not have mechanical parts and therefore, have superior performance compared to HDDs. Due to the high cost of SSDs, entirely replacing HDDs with SSDs is not economically justified.…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Reza Salkhordeh , Mostafa Hadizadeh , Hossein Asadi

Important workloads, such as machine learning and graph analytics applications, heavily involve sparse linear algebra operations. These operations use sparse matrix compression as an effective means to avoid storing zeros and performing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Konstantinos Kanellopoulos , Nandita Vijaykumar , Christina Giannoula , Roknoddin Azizi , Skanda Koppula , Nika Mansouri Ghiasi , Taha Shahroodi , Juan Gomez Luna , Onur Mutlu

Existing path lookup routines in file systems need to construct an auxiliary index in memory or traverse the dentries of the directory file sequentially, which brings either heavy writes or large timing cost. This paper designs a novel path…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Runyu Zhang , Chaoshu Yang

Key-Value Stores (KVS) implemented with log-structured merge-tree (LSM-tree) have gained widespread acceptance in storage systems. Nonetheless, a significant challenge arises in the form of high write amplification due to the compaction…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Jianshun Zhang , Fang Wang , Sheng Qiu , Yi Wang , Jiaxin Ou , Junxun Huang , Baoquan Li , Peng Fang , Dan Feng

In this paper, we introduce DobLIX, a dual-objective learned index specifically designed for Log-Structured Merge(LSM) tree-based key-value stores. Although traditional learned indexes focus exclusively on optimizing index lookups, they…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Alireza Heidari , Amirhossein Ahmadi , Wei Zhang

LSM-trees are widely adopted as the storage backend of key-value stores. However, optimizing the system performance under dynamic workloads has not been sufficiently studied or evaluated in previous work. To fill the gap, we present RusKey,…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Dingheng Mo , Fanchao Chen , Siqiang Luo , Caihua Shan

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

The storage manager, as a key component of the database system, is responsible for organizing, reading, and delivering data to the execution engine for processing. According to the data serving mechanism, existing storage managers are…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Ye Zhu

With the current rate of data growth, processing needs are becoming difficult to fulfill due to CPU power and energy limitations. Data serving systems and especially persistent key-value stores have become a substantial part of data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Stella Mikrou , Anastasios Papagiannis , Giorgos Saloustros , Manolis Marazakis , Angelos Bilas

High read and write performance is important for generic key-value stores, which are foundational to modern applications and databases. Yet, achieving high performance for mixed and dynamic workloads is challenging due to fundamental…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Tony Astolfi , Vidya Silai , Darby Huye , Lan Liu , Raja R. Sambasivan , Johes Bater

Key-value (KV) separation is a technique that introduces randomness in the I/O access patterns to reduce I/O amplification in LSM-based key-value stores for fast storage devices (NVMe). KV separation has a significant drawback that makes it…

An increasing amount of trajectory data is being annotated with text descriptions to better capture the semantics associated with locations. The fusion of spatial locations and text descriptions in trajectories engenders a new type of…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-05-15 Gao Cong , Hua Lu , Beng Chin Ooi , Dongxiang Zhang , Meihui Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) face significant inference latency due to inefficiencies in GEMM operations, weight access, and KV cache access, especially in real-time scenarios. This highlights the need for a versatile compute-memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Huizheng Wang , Zichuan Wang , Zhiheng Yue , Yousheng Long , Taiquan Wei , Jianxun Yang , Yang Wang , Chao Li , Shaojun Wei , Yang Hu , Shouyi Yin