ArceKV: Towards Workload-driven LSM-compactions for Key-Value Store Under Dynamic Workloads

Summary: ArceKV targets dynamic KV workloads with workload-driven LSM compactions, moving beyond static read/write-ratio tuning. It relaxes traditional LSM constraints via ElasticLSM and uses the lightweight Arce decision engine to choose among compactions/write stalls, yielding ~3x gains on shifting workloads. (summarized by gpt-5.4-mini on Apr 12 2026)

Paper ID: 14573
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2026
Pagerank: 5.3652966e-05
Overall Rank: 8,811 | 39.55%
DOI: 10.14778/3796195.3796208

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Authors

1. Junfeng Liu (Nanyang Technological University)
2. Haoxuan Xie (Nanyang Technological University)
3. Siqiang Luo (Nanyang Technological University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{liu_vldb26,
        title = {{ArceKV: Towards Workload-driven LSM-compactions for Key-Value Store Under Dynamic Workloads}},
        author = {Liu, Junfeng and Xie, Haoxuan and Luo, Siqiang},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '26},
        volume = {19},
        number = {5},
        pages = {958--972},
        doi = {10.14778/3796195.3796208},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3796195.3796208},
        year = {2026}
}

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10,543	How to Write to SSDs	2026	VLDB	5.093636e-05
10,616	Terark-DS: A High-Performance and Storage-Efficient Key-Value Separation Storage Engine on Disaggregated Storage	2026	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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271	TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database	2020	VLDB	0.00022703024
275	bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree	2012	SIGMOD	0.00022630189
446	Monkey: Optimal Navigable Key-Value Store	2017	SIGMOD	0.00018332392
584	Workload-Aware Database Monitoring and Consolidation	2011	SIGMOD	0.00016139925
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857	SlimDB: A Space-Efficient Key-Value Storage Engine For Semi-Sorted Data	2017	VLDB	0.00013568886
880	SuRF: Practical Range Query Filtering with Fast Succinct Tries	2018	SIGMOD	0.00013432693
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2,698	Rosetta: A Robust Space-Time Optimized Range Filter for Key-Value Stores	2020	SIGMOD	8.2450522e-05
2,755	Lethe: A Tunable Delete-Aware LSM Engine	2020	SIGMOD	8.163097e-05
2,918	OceanBase: A 707 Million tpmC Distributed Relational Database System	2022	VLDB	7.9649716e-05
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3,005	Constructing and Analyzing the LSM Compaction Design Space	2021	VLDB	7.8608206e-05
3,054	Spooky: Granulating LSM-Tree Compactions Correctly	2022	VLDB	7.8090808e-05
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4,119	Proteus: A Self-Designing Range Filter	2022	SIGMOD	6.8907395e-05
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4,276	DINOMO: An Elastic, Scalable, High-Performance Key-Value Store for Disaggregated Persistent Memory	2022	VLDB	6.7877967e-05
4,664	GRF: A Global Range Filter for LSM-Trees with Shape Encoding	2024	SIGMOD	6.5787544e-05
4,841	Grafite: Taming Adversarial Queries with Optimal Range Filters	2024	SIGMOD	6.4831558e-05
4,945	Lightweight Cardinality Estimation in LSM-based Systems	2018	SIGMOD	6.4321265e-05
5,012	A Comparative Study of Secondary Indexing Techniques in LSM-based NoSQL Databases	2018	SIGMOD	6.4015289e-05
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5,261	Oasis: An Optimal Disjoint Segmented Learned Range Filter	2024	VLDB	6.2955539e-05
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5,907	Dotori: A Key-Value SSD Based KV Store	2023	VLDB	6.0453752e-05
6,679	Revisiting the Design of LSM-tree Based OLTP Storage Engine with Persistent Memory	2021	VLDB	5.8050516e-05
6,843	Learning to Optimize LSM-trees: Towards A Reinforcement Learning based Key-Value Store for Dynamic Workloads	2023	SIGMOD	5.7573899e-05
7,757	CAMAL: Optimizing LSM-trees via Active Learning	2024	SIGMOD	5.5508469e-05
8,156	How to Grow an LSM-tree? Towards Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice	2025	SIGMOD	5.4765648e-05
8,463	Limousine: Blending Learned and Classical Indexes to Self-Design Larger-than-Memory Cloud Storage Engines	2024	SIGMOD	5.4205593e-05
8,475	Mnemosyne: Dynamic Workload-Aware BF Tuning via Accurate Statistics in LSM trees	2025	SIGMOD	5.4171036e-05
8,896	Aster: Enhancing LSM-structures for Scalable Graph Database	2025	SIGMOD	5.3495662e-05
9,021	Structural Designs Meet Optimality: Exploring Optimized LSM-tree Structures in A Colossal Configuration Space	2024	SIGMOD	5.3305499e-05
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