Morton Filters: Faster, Space-Efficient Cuckoo Filters via Biasing, Compression, and Decoupled Logical Sparsity

Summary: Morton filters improve cuckoo-filter lookup, insertion, and deletion throughput via biased single-hash placement, compressed logical sparsity, and embedded metadata. Operations often touch one cache line while matching or slightly beating cuckoo-filter space efficiency. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 11786
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 9.3645236e-05
Overall Rank: 1,975 | 86.46%
DOI: 10.14778/3213880.3213884

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Authors

1. Alex D. Breslow (AMD)
2. Nuwan S. Jayasena (AMD)

BibTeX Citation

@article{breslow_vldb18,
        title = {{Morton Filters: Faster, Space-Efficient Cuckoo Filters via Biasing, Compression, and Decoupled Logical Sparsity}},
        author = {Breslow, Alex D. and Jayasena, Nuwan S.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '18},
        volume = {11},
        number = {9},
        pages = {1041--1055},
        doi = {10.14778/3213880.3213884},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3213880.3213884},
        year = {2018}
}

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1,954	Chucky: A Succinct Cuckoo Filter for LSM-Tree	2021	SIGMOD	9.4208165e-05
3,510	Performance-Optimal Filtering: Bloom Overtakes Cuckoo at High Throughput	2019	VLDB	7.3561488e-05
3,798	Vector Quotient Filters: Overcoming the Time/Space Trade-Off in Filter Design	2021	SIGMOD	7.1165678e-05
3,898	BurstSketch: Finding Bursts in Data Streams	2021	SIGMOD	7.0367583e-05
4,532	Stacked Filters: Learning to Filter by Structure	2021	VLDB	6.6436681e-05
4,960	InfiniFilter: Expanding Filters to Infinity and Beyond	2023	SIGMOD	6.4280133e-05
5,229	Dissecting, Designing, and Optimizing LSM-based Data Stores	2022	SIGMOD	6.307514e-05
6,539	Prefix Filter: Practically and Theoretically Better Than Bloom	2022	VLDB	5.8473945e-05
7,498	Stingy Sketch: A Sketch Framework for Accurate and Fast Frequency Estimation	2022	VLDB	5.6031077e-05
7,716	Double-Anonymous Sketch: Achieving Top-K-fairness for Finding Global Top-K Frequent Items	2023	SIGMOD	5.5605526e-05
7,776	Aleph Filter: To Infinity in Constant Time	2024	VLDB	5.5464036e-05
8,413	Conditional Cuckoo Filters	2021	SIGMOD	5.4306049e-05
8,475	Mnemosyne: Dynamic Workload-Aware BF Tuning via Accurate Statistics in LSM trees	2025	SIGMOD	5.4171036e-05
8,612	Building Fast and Compact Sketches for Approximately Multi-Set Multi-Membership Querying	2021	SIGMOD	5.4012878e-05
8,892	Adaptive Quotient Filters	2024	SIGMOD	5.3505412e-05
9,467	Sphinx: A Succinct Perfect Hash Index for x86	2025	VLDB	5.2634238e-05
10,004	A four-dimensional Analysis of Partitioned Approximate Filters	2021	VLDB	5.1810297e-05
10,434	Breadcrumb Filters: Fast Fully Featured Filters	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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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
14	MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution	2005	CIDR	0.0006312782
29	Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access	1999	VLDB	0.00052093615
80	Hashing Methods and Relational Algebra Operations	1984	VLDB	0.00036536643
275	bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree	2012	SIGMOD	0.00022630189
330	Impala: A Modern, Open-Source SQL Engine for Hadoop	2015	CIDR	0.0002104801
342	R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Distributed Queries	1986	VLDB	0.00020673706
472	Optimizing Space Amplification in RocksDB	2017	CIDR	0.000179044
634	Rethinking SIMD Vectorization for In-Memory Databases	2015	SIGMOD	0.00015533814
789	Don't Thrash: How to Cache Your Hash on Flash	2012	VLDB	0.0001401724
862	Spectral Bloom Filters	2003	SIGMOD	0.00013532857
880	SuRF: Practical Range Query Filtering with Fast Succinct Tries	2018	SIGMOD	0.00013432693
2,043	A General-Purpose Counting Filter: Making Every Bit Count	2017	SIGMOD	9.2674387e-05
2,224	An Experimental Study of Bitmap Compression vs. Inverted List Compression	2017	SIGMOD	8.9183396e-05
2,498	Mega-KV: A Case for GPUs to Maximize the Throughput of In-Memory Key-Value Stores	2015	VLDB	8.5016595e-05
3,533	Approximately Detecting Duplicates for Streaming Data using Stable Bloom Filters	2006	SIGMOD	7.3366144e-05
6,855	2-3 Cuckoo Filters for Faster Triangle Listing and Set Intersection	2017	PODS	5.753175e-05

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