Magma: A High Data Density Storage Engine Used in Couchbase

Summary: Hybrid LSM + segmented log storage for high data density and write-optimized Couchbase. Novel GC of stale versions avoids index lookups during log segment compaction, cutting write amplification and space; 3.3x density, 10x memory reduction, and better write-heavy performance than RocksDB. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12827
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 4.5851753e-05
Overall Rank: 8,091 | 43.77%
DOI: 10.14778/3554821.3554839

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11,870	Nitro: A Fast, Scalable In-Memory Storage Engine for NoSQL Global Secondary Index	2016	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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