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SlimDB: A Space-Efficient Key-Value Storage Engine For Semi-Sorted Data

Summary: SlimDB: a space-efficient KV store for semi-sorted data; targets reduced read/write amplification in LSM-tree-based backends. 2-3x faster than LevelDB/RocksDB, less memory for metadata indices, and lower tail read latency on SSDs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
11515
Venue
VLDB
Year
2017
Pagerank
0.0001235708
Overall Rank
1,368 | 90.50%
DOI
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 43 of 43 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1,309 Dostoevsky: Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores via Adaptive Removal of Superfluous Merging 2018 SIGMOD 0.00012655712
1,932 X-Engine: An Optimized Storage Engine for Large-scale E-commerce Transaction Processing 2019 SIGMOD 0.00010050776
2,112 The Log-Structured Merge-Bush & the Wacky Continuum 2019 SIGMOD 9.5244583e-05
2,606 Design Continuums and the Path Toward Self-Designing Key-Value Stores that Know and Learn 2019 CIDR 8.4621503e-05
2,797 Chucky: A Succinct Cuckoo Filter for LSM-Tree 2021 SIGMOD 8.1116755e-05
3,545 Rosetta: A Robust Space-Time Optimized Range Filter for Key-Value Stores 2020 SIGMOD 6.9831585e-05
3,569 Cache-Craft: Managing Chunk-Caches for Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Generation 2025 SIGMOD 6.9588368e-05
3,797 Constructing and Analyzing the LSM Compaction Design Space 2021 VLDB 6.7552936e-05
3,970 Spooky: Granulating LSM-Tree Compactions Correctly 2022 VLDB 6.5756727e-05
4,404 TreeLine: An Update-In-Place Key-Value Store for Modern Storage 2023 VLDB 6.2052645e-05
4,920 On Performance Stability in LSM-based Storage Systems 2020 VLDB 5.8262404e-05
4,948 SplinterDB and Maplets: Improving the Tradeoffs in Key-Value Store Compaction Policy 2023 SIGMOD 5.810122e-05
5,313 Key-Value Storage Engines 2020 SIGMOD 5.5711707e-05
5,316 Cuckoo Index: A Lightweight Secondary Index Structure 2020 VLDB 5.5688295e-05
5,749 InfiniFilter: Expanding Filters to Infinity and Beyond 2023 SIGMOD 5.3420354e-05
5,801 Dissecting, Designing, and Optimizing LSM-based Data Stores 2022 SIGMOD 5.3217858e-05
5,920 Breaking Down Memory Walls: Adaptive Memory Management in LSM-based Storage Systems 2021 VLDB 5.2686888e-05
6,350 PQCache: Product Quantization-based KVCache for Long Context LLM Inference 2025 SIGMOD 5.0957601e-05
6,394 Endure: A Robust Tuning Paradigm for LSM Trees Under Workload Uncertainty 2022 VLDB 5.0770427e-05
6,456 Toward a Better Understanding and Evaluation of Tree Structures on Flash SSDs 2021 VLDB 5.0505636e-05
6,829 Prefix Filter: Practically and Theoretically Better Than Bloom 2022 VLDB 4.9083308e-05
7,232 Catalyst: Optimizing Cache Management for Large In-memory Key-value Systems 2023 VLDB 4.7891237e-05
7,623 Learning to Optimize LSM-trees: Towards A Reinforcement Learning based Key-Value Store for Dynamic Workloads 2023 SIGMOD 4.6890662e-05
7,662 Optimizing Collections of Bloom Filters within a Space Budget 2024 VLDB 4.6812878e-05
7,694 LSMGraph: A High-Performance Dynamic Graph Storage System with Multi-Level CSR 2024 SIGMOD 4.6712753e-05
8,011 CAMAL: Optimizing LSM-trees via Active Learning 2024 SIGMOD 4.6022693e-05
8,333 How to Grow an LSM-tree? Towards Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice 2025 SIGMOD 4.5390511e-05
8,524 Aleph Filter: To Infinity in Constant Time 2024 VLDB 4.4893996e-05
8,722 Memento Filter: A Fast, Dynamic, and Robust Range Filter 2024 SIGMOD 4.4558244e-05
8,785 FishStore: Faster Ingestion with Subset Hashing 2019 SIGMOD 4.4467731e-05
8,804 ArceKV: Towards Workload-driven LSM-compactions for Key-Value Store Under Dynamic Workloads 2026 VLDB 4.4424232e-05
8,842 ChainKV: A Semantics-Aware Key-Value Store for Ethereum System 2023 SIGMOD 4.4342276e-05
8,876 MirrorKV: An Efficient Key-Value Store on Hybrid Cloud Storage with Balanced Performance of Compaction and Querying 2023 SIGMOD 4.4261814e-05
9,390 Rethinking The Compaction Policies in LSM-trees 2025 SIGMOD 4.341433e-05
9,414 Experimental Analysis of Large-scale Learnable Vector Storage Compression 2024 VLDB 4.3399748e-05
9,529 Mnemosyne: Dynamic Workload-Aware BF Tuning via Accurate Statistics in LSM trees 2025 SIGMOD 4.3251912e-05
9,823 NEXT: A New Secondary Index Framework for LSM-based Data Storage 2025 SIGMOD 4.2710095e-05
9,986 A Multi-tenant Relational OLTP Database at Salesforce 2026 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
10,063 Counting Is All You Need for Instant Tuple Discovery: Enabling Real-Time HTAP in Standalone DBMSs 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,379 Aster: Enhancing LSM-structures for Scalable Graph Database 2025 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,749 Sphinx: A Succinct Perfect Hash Index for x86 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
11,052 On Reducing Space Amplification with Multi-Column Compaction in Apache IoTDB 2024 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
11,078 LavaStore: ByteDance's Purpose-built, High-performance, Cost-effective Local Storage Engine for Cloud Services 2024 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
281 LinkBench: a Database Benchmark Based on the Facebook Social Graph 2013 SIGMOD 0.00029084275
379 bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree 2012 SIGMOD 0.00024954332
562 Tree Indexing on Solid State Drives 2010 VLDB 0.00020035385
608 Monkey: Optimal Navigable Key-Value Store 2017 SIGMOD 0.00019233548
1,071 Incremental Organization for Data Recording and Warehousing 1997 VLDB 0.00014265647
1,113 Cache-Oblivious String B-trees 2006 PODS 0.00013885755
1,147 FlashStore: High Throughput Persistent Key-Value Store 2010 VLDB 0.00013660843
2,225 SkimpyStash: RAM Space Skimpy Key-Value Store on Flash-based Storage 2011 SIGMOD 9.2534051e-05
5,919 Walnut: A Unified Cloud Object Store 2012 SIGMOD 5.2687494e-05
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