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On Performance Stability in LSM-based Storage Systems

Summary: Two-phase experimental methodology to quantify write stalls across LSM-tree designs in NoSQL systems. Identifies merge-scheduler design choices that minimize stalls under a fixed I/O bandwidth budget, with extensive Apache AsterixDB experiments validating results. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
12436
Venue
VLDB
Year
2020
Pagerank
6.7965035e-05
Overall Rank
4,262 | 70.77%
DOI
10.14778/3372716.3372719

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BibTeX Citation

@article{luo_vldb20,
        title = {{On Performance Stability in LSM-based Storage Systems}},
        author = {Luo, Chen and Carey, Michael J.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '20},
        volume = {13},
        number = {4},
        pages = {449--462},
        doi = {10.14778/3372716.3372719},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3372716.3372719},
        year = {2020}
}

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Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1,954 Chucky: A Succinct Cuckoo Filter for LSM-Tree 2021 SIGMOD 9.4208165e-05
3,758 Nova-LSM: A Distributed, Component-based LSM-tree Key-value Store 2021 SIGMOD 7.1471346e-05
3,773 SplinterDB and Maplets: Improving the Tradeoffs in Key-Value Store Compaction Policy 2023 SIGMOD 7.1384476e-05
5,226 Breaking Down Memory Walls: Adaptive Memory Management in LSM-based Storage Systems 2021 VLDB 6.3090383e-05
5,229 Dissecting, Designing, and Optimizing LSM-based Data Stores 2022 SIGMOD 6.307514e-05
5,766 Endure: A Robust Tuning Paradigm for LSM Trees Under Workload Uncertainty 2022 VLDB 6.094771e-05
6,139 Toward a Better Understanding and Evaluation of Tree Structures on Flash SSDs 2021 VLDB 5.9638351e-05
6,828 Breaking Down Memory Walls in LSM-based Storage Systems 2020 SIGMOD 5.7601608e-05
8,682 Columnar Formats for Schemaless LSM-based Document Stores 2022 VLDB 5.3857524e-05
8,811 ArceKV: Towards Workload-driven LSM-compactions for Key-Value Store Under Dynamic Workloads 2026 VLDB 5.3652966e-05
8,919 MirrorKV: An Efficient Key-Value Store on Hybrid Cloud Storage with Balanced Performance of Compaction and Querying 2023 SIGMOD 5.3483178e-05
9,256 FlashAlloc: Dedicating Flash Blocks By Objects 2023 VLDB 5.2973814e-05
9,457 Rethinking The Compaction Policies in LSM-trees 2025 SIGMOD 5.2642945e-05
10,081 Rethink Query Optimization in HTAP Databases 2023 SIGMOD 5.158939e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 19 of 19 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
275 bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree 2012 SIGMOD 0.00022630189
446 Monkey: Optimal Navigable Key-Value Store 2017 SIGMOD 0.00018332392
472 Optimizing Space Amplification in RocksDB 2017 CIDR 0.000179044
512 Tree Indexing on Solid State Drives 2010 VLDB 0.00017196795
831 Dostoevsky: Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores via Adaptive Removal of Superfluous Merging 2018 SIGMOD 0.00013748512
857 SlimDB: A Space-Efficient Key-Value Storage Engine For Semi-Sorted Data 2017 VLDB 0.00013568886
1,015 AsterixDB: A Scalable, Open Source BDMS 2014 VLDB 0.00012647763
1,022 A Scalable, Predictable Join Operator for Highly Concurrent Data Warehouses 2009 VLDB 0.00012602841
1,347 X-Engine: An Optimized Storage Engine for Large-scale E-commerce Transaction Processing 2019 SIGMOD 0.00011073571
1,502 The Log-Structured Merge-Bush & the Wacky Continuum 2019 SIGMOD 0.00010557694
1,580 Compaction management in distributed key-value datastores 2015 VLDB 0.00010299919
1,879 Predictable Performance for Unpredictable Workloads 2009 VLDB 9.5613416e-05
1,969 PIQL: Success-Tolerant Query Processing in the Cloud 2012 VLDB 9.3749819e-05
3,513 Variance Aware Optimization of Parameterized Queries 2010 SIGMOD 7.354613e-05
4,250 Generalized Scale Independence Through Incremental Precomputation 2013 SIGMOD 6.8031294e-05
4,816 A Top-Down Approach to Achieving Performance Predictability in Database Systems 2017 SIGMOD 6.4949878e-05
5,012 A Comparative Study of Secondary Indexing Techniques in LSM-based NoSQL Databases 2018 SIGMOD 6.4015289e-05
7,459 Efficient Data Ingestion and Query Processing for LSM-Based Storage Systems 2019 VLDB 5.6119467e-05
9,508 An IDEA: An Ingestion Framework for Data Enrichment in AsterixDB 2019 VLDB 5.2581623e-05
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