Mach: A Pluggable Metrics Storage Engine for the Age of Observability

Summary: Mach: a pluggable, RocksDB-style metrics storage engine tailored to observability workloads; its lean, loosely-coordinated design exploits metrics semantics (append-heavy, high-cardinality, short retention) to optimize ingestion and query paths. Preliminary results: ~10× write and ~3× read throughput vs popular TSDBs. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 441
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 4.5435639e-05
Overall Rank: 8,288 | 42.35%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
11,118	Mach: Firefighting Time-Critical Issues in Complex Systems Using High-Frequency Telemetry	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,192	ForestTI: A Scalable Inverted-Index-Oriented Timeseries Management System with Flexible Memory Efficiency	2023	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-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
80	Weaving Relations for Cache Performance	2001	VLDB	0.00055721729
185	DuckDB: an Embeddable Analytical Database	2019	SIGMOD	0.00036538405
210	Gorilla: A Fast, Scalable, In-Memory Time Series Database	2015	VLDB	0.0003404384
734	The TileDB Array Data Storage Manager	2017	VLDB	0.00017455248
1,588	Druid: A Real-time Analytical Data Store	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011239313
2,853	Timon: A Timestamped Event Database for Efficient Telemetry Data Processing and Analytics	2020	SIGMOD	8.0108722e-05
3,286	Monarch: Google’s Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database	2020	VLDB	7.2740159e-05
3,745	DeepSqueeze: Deep Semantic Compression for Tabular Data	2020	SIGMOD	6.7926132e-05
6,596	Heracles: An Efficient Storage Model and Data Flushing for Performance Monitoring Timeseries	2021	VLDB	4.9988301e-05
13,231	Cloud Observability: A MELTing Pot for Petabytes of Heterogenous Time Series	2021	CIDR	-

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