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X-Engine: An Optimized Storage Engine for Large-scale E-commerce Transaction Processing

Summary: X-Engine: a write-optimized storage engine for large-scale OLTP in POLARDB, tackling promo-driven bursts and hot-record skew. Key ideas: tiered storage with LSM-tree, FPGA-accelerated compactions, asynchronous writes, and incremental cache replacement. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
5653
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2019
Pagerank
9.811707e-05
Overall Rank
2,004 | 86.07%
DOI
10.1145/3299869.3314041

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1,729 Cloud-Native Database Systems at Alibaba: Opportunities and Challenges 2019 VLDB 0.0001073728
2,358 PolarDB Serverless: A Cloud Native Database for Disaggregated Data Centers 2021 SIGMOD 8.9617346e-05
2,510 LB+-Trees: Optimizing Persistent Index Performance on 3DXPoint Memory 2020 VLDB 8.6204284e-05
2,798 Chucky: A Succinct Cuckoo Filter for LSM-Tree 2021 SIGMOD 8.1080111e-05
3,269 iBTune: Individualized Buffer Tuning for Large-scale Cloud Databases 2019 VLDB 7.2998062e-05
3,386 Lethe: A Tunable Delete-Aware LSM Engine 2020 SIGMOD 7.1577103e-05
3,793 Constructing and Analyzing the LSM Compaction Design Space 2021 VLDB 6.7617833e-05
3,965 Spooky: Granulating LSM-Tree Compactions Correctly 2022 VLDB 6.5820028e-05
4,453 MorphoSys: Automatic Physical Design Metamorphosis for Distributed Database Systems 2020 VLDB 6.1723632e-05
4,498 GaccO - A GPU-accelerated OLTP DBMS 2022 SIGMOD 6.138538e-05
4,588 Leaper: A Learned Prefetcher for Cache Invalidation in LSM-tree based Storage Engines 2020 VLDB 6.0655418e-05
4,662 Nova-LSM: A Distributed, Component-based LSM-tree Key-value Store 2021 SIGMOD 6.013415e-05
4,914 On Performance Stability in LSM-based Storage Systems 2020 VLDB 5.8315684e-05
5,791 Dissecting, Designing, and Optimizing LSM-based Data Stores 2022 SIGMOD 5.3268999e-05
5,863 GRF: A Global Range Filter for LSM-Trees with Shape Encoding 2024 SIGMOD 5.2979639e-05
5,918 Breaking Down Memory Walls: Adaptive Memory Management in LSM-based Storage Systems 2021 VLDB 5.2737135e-05
6,170 PolarDB-IMCI: A Cloud-Native HTAP Database System at Alibaba 2023 SIGMOD 5.171601e-05
6,184 Dotori: A Key-Value SSD Based KV Store 2023 VLDB 5.1666338e-05
6,247 Optimizing In-memory Database Engine for AI-powered On-line Decision Augmentation Using Persistent Memory 2021 VLDB 5.1389201e-05
6,398 Endure: A Robust Tuning Paradigm for LSM Trees Under Workload Uncertainty 2022 VLDB 5.0819209e-05
6,785 Halo: A Hybrid PMem-DRAM Persistent Hash Index with Fast Recovery 2022 SIGMOD 4.9260601e-05
7,106 Revisiting the Design of LSM-tree Based OLTP Storage Engine with Persistent Memory 2021 VLDB 4.8300429e-05
7,340 SaS: SSD as SQL Database System 2021 VLDB 4.757874e-05
7,620 Learning to Optimize LSM-trees: Towards A Reinforcement Learning based Key-Value Store for Dynamic Workloads 2023 SIGMOD 4.693568e-05
7,694 LSMGraph: A High-Performance Dynamic Graph Storage System with Multi-Level CSR 2024 SIGMOD 4.6757592e-05
7,803 Hardware Acceleration of Compression and Encryption in SAP HANA 2022 VLDB 4.6468619e-05
8,009 CAMAL: Optimizing LSM-trees via Active Learning 2024 SIGMOD 4.6066863e-05
8,339 How to Grow an LSM-tree? Towards Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice 2025 SIGMOD 4.5434069e-05
8,491 SA-LSM: Optimize Data Layout for LSM-tree Based Storage using Survival Analysis 2022 VLDB 4.4993073e-05
8,627 Limousine: Blending Learned and Classical Indexes to Self-Design Larger-than-Memory Cloud Storage Engines 2024 SIGMOD 4.4829101e-05
8,658 Modernization of Databases in the Cloud Era: Building Databases that Run like Legos 2023 VLDB 4.4729338e-05
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9,071 Structural Designs Meet Optimality: Exploring Optimized LSM-tree Structures in A Colossal Configuration Space 2024 SIGMOD 4.4025274e-05
9,317 Are Joins over LSM-trees Ready? Take RocksDB as an Example 2025 VLDB 4.3556432e-05
9,386 Rethinking The Compaction Policies in LSM-trees 2025 SIGMOD 4.3455975e-05
9,457 Sharing Opportunities for OLTP Workloads in Different Isolation Levels 2020 VLDB 4.3382555e-05
9,529 Mnemosyne: Dynamic Workload-Aware BF Tuning via Accurate Statistics in LSM trees 2025 SIGMOD 4.32934e-05
9,882 DASH: Asynchronous Hardware Data Processing Services 2023 CIDR 4.2643674e-05
10,176 Improving Range Scan Performance in LSM-trees with Group Caching 2026 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
10,367 Aster: Enhancing LSM-structures for Scalable Graph Database 2025 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
10,507 SwiftSpatial: Spatial Joins on Modern Hardware 2025 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
11,049 On Reducing Space Amplification with Multi-Column Compaction in Apache IoTDB 2024 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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11,336 Confidence Bounded Replica Currency Estimation 2022 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
156 Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases 2017 SIGMOD 0.00040504295
233 A Study of Index Structures for Main Memory Database Management Systems 1986 VLDB 0.00032021526
379 bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree 2012 SIGMOD 0.0002493527
531 Improving Index Performance through Prefetching 2001 SIGMOD 0.00020790058
569 Optimizing Space Amplification in RocksDB 2017 CIDR 0.00019924098
899 Faster: A Concurrent Key-Value Store with In-Place Updates 2018 SIGMOD 0.00015509287
1,077 Incremental Organization for Data Recording and Warehousing 1997 VLDB 0.00014247204
1,117 Cache-Oblivious String B-trees 2006 PODS 0.00013882205
1,311 Dostoevsky: Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores via Adaptive Removal of Superfluous Merging 2018 SIGMOD 0.00012657439
1,366 SlimDB: A Space-Efficient Key-Value Storage Engine For Semi-Sorted Data 2017 VLDB 0.00012357685
1,593 PolarFS: An Ultra-low Latency and Failure Resilient Distributed File System for Shared Storage Cloud Database 2018 VLDB 0.00011224049
1,780 LLAMA: A Cache/Storage Subsystem for Modern Hardware 2013 VLDB 0.00010580669
1,949 Positional Update Handling in Column Stores 2010 SIGMOD 9.9864085e-05
2,689 LogBase: A Scalable Log-structured Database System in the Cloud 2012 VLDB 8.2942515e-05
3,607 Cache Tables: Paving the Way for an Adaptive Database Cache 2003 VLDB 6.9253431e-05
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