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Optimizing Space Amplification in RocksDB

Summary: Introduces practical techniques to minimize space amplification in RocksDB—trading CPU and read/write amplification via compaction/tuning—to prioritize storage efficiency while preserving OLTP latency targets. Empirical (TPC-C, LinkBench, production) results show RocksDB uses <50% of InnoDB storage and often matches or exceeds its performance, demonstrating the first large-scale competitive LSM deployment for OLTP. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
309
Venue
CIDR
Year
2017
Pagerank
0.00019924098
Overall Rank
569 | 96.05%
DOI
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609 Monkey: Optimal Navigable Key-Value Store 2017 SIGMOD 0.0001923446
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2,109 The Log-Structured Merge-Bush & the Wacky Continuum 2019 SIGMOD 9.5318694e-05
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2,606 Design Continuums and the Path Toward Self-Designing Key-Value Stores that Know and Learn 2019 CIDR 8.4645832e-05
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4,670 Napa: Powering Scalable Data Warehousing with Robust Query Performance at Google 2021 VLDB 6.0104466e-05
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5,069 Disaggregating RocksDB: A Production Experience 2023 SIGMOD 5.7202501e-05
5,308 Key-Value Storage Engines 2020 SIGMOD 5.576303e-05
5,631 A Comparative Study of Secondary Indexing Techniques in LSM-based NoSQL Databases 2018 SIGMOD 5.4019839e-05
5,671 LSched: A Workload-Aware Learned Query Scheduler for Analytical Database Systems 2022 SIGMOD 5.3803919e-05
5,678 Cloud-Native Transactions and Analytics in SingleStore 2022 SIGMOD 5.3746593e-05
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6,772 FineLine: Log-structured Transactional Storage and Recovery 2018 VLDB 4.9313122e-05
6,831 Prefix Filter: Practically and Theoretically Better Than Bloom 2022 VLDB 4.9130458e-05
7,696 Towards Optimal Transaction Scheduling 2024 VLDB 4.6754222e-05
7,756 LETUS: A Log-Structured Efficient Trusted Universal BlockChain Storage 2024 SIGMOD 4.6598957e-05
8,491 SA-LSM: Optimize Data Layout for LSM-tree Based Storage using Survival Analysis 2022 VLDB 4.4993073e-05
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281 LinkBench: a Database Benchmark Based on the Facebook Social Graph 2013 SIGMOD 0.0002906793
379 bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree 2012 SIGMOD 0.0002493527
1,613 Realtime Data Processing at Facebook 2016 SIGMOD 0.00011140777
2,689 LogBase: A Scalable Log-structured Database System in the Cloud 2012 VLDB 8.2942515e-05
2,833 Optimizing Optimistic Concurrency Control for Tree-Structured, Log-Structured Databases 2015 SIGMOD 8.0460396e-05
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