Nitro: A Fast, Scalable In-Memory Storage Engine for NoSQL Global Secondary Index
Summary: Nitro is a latch-free, in-memory KV engine for Couchbase GSI, designed for linear read/write scalability on many-core, high-memory hardware while supporting snapshots, stable scans, backup, and recovery. It delivers up to 4M inserts/s and 10M lookups/s. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Sarath Lakshman (Couchbase)
- 2. Sriram Melkote (Couchbase)
- 3. John Liang (Couchbase)
- 4. Ravi Mayuram (Couchbase)
BibTeX Citation
@article{lakshman_vldb16,
title = {{Nitro: A Fast, Scalable In-Memory Storage Engine for NoSQL Global Secondary Index}},
author = {Lakshman, Sarath and Melkote, Sriram and Liang, John and Mayuram, Ravi},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '16},
volume = {9},
number = {13},
pages = {1413--1416},
doi = {10.14778/3007263.3007273},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3007263.3007273},
year = {2016}
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| 8,240 | Magma: A High Data Density Storage Engine Used in Couchbase | 2022 | VLDB | 5.4594782e-05 |
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| 38 | Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine | 2013 | SIGMOD | 0.00047648573 |
| 157 | OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.0002863588 |
| 1,710 | Cache-Conscious Concurrency Control of Main-Memory Indexes on Shared-Memory Multiprocessor Systems | 2001 | VLDB | 9.9537123e-05 |
| 3,658 | P*TIME: Highly Scalable OLTP DBMS for Managing Update-Intensive Stream Workload | 2004 | VLDB | 7.2184172e-05 |
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