The Log-Structured Merge-Bush & the Wacky Continuum

Summary: Introduces LSM-Bush, an LSM with increasing adjacent-level capacity ratios (doubly-exponential) that drops write cost to O(log log N) and reshapes reads/memory. Presents Wacky, a continuum from lazy to greedy merge policies that can be instantiated in one system and analytically tuned to workload-specific trade-offs (e.g., range reads). (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5716
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 9.5244583e-05
Overall Rank: 2,112 | 85.33%
DOI: 10.1145/3299869.3319903

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Authors

1. Niv Dayan
2. Stratos Idreos

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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2,797	Chucky: A Succinct Cuckoo Filter for LSM-Tree	2021	SIGMOD	8.1116755e-05
3,363	Lethe: A Tunable Delete-Aware LSM Engine	2020	SIGMOD	7.1680649e-05
3,545	Rosetta: A Robust Space-Time Optimized Range Filter for Key-Value Stores	2020	SIGMOD	6.9831585e-05
3,797	Constructing and Analyzing the LSM Compaction Design Space	2021	VLDB	6.7552936e-05
3,970	Spooky: Granulating LSM-Tree Compactions Correctly	2022	VLDB	6.5756727e-05
4,377	HUNTER: An Online Cloud Database Hybrid Tuning System for Personalized Requirements	2022	SIGMOD	6.2331947e-05
4,404	TreeLine: An Update-In-Place Key-Value Store for Modern Storage	2023	VLDB	6.2052645e-05
4,920	On Performance Stability in LSM-based Storage Systems	2020	VLDB	5.8262404e-05
4,948	SplinterDB and Maplets: Improving the Tradeoffs in Key-Value Store Compaction Policy	2023	SIGMOD	5.810122e-05
5,313	Key-Value Storage Engines	2020	SIGMOD	5.5711707e-05
5,749	InfiniFilter: Expanding Filters to Infinity and Beyond	2023	SIGMOD	5.3420354e-05
5,801	Dissecting, Designing, and Optimizing LSM-based Data Stores	2022	SIGMOD	5.3217858e-05
5,868	GRF: A Global Range Filter for LSM-Trees with Shape Encoding	2024	SIGMOD	5.2928769e-05
5,920	Breaking Down Memory Walls: Adaptive Memory Management in LSM-based Storage Systems	2021	VLDB	5.2686888e-05
5,955	Spatial Independent Range Sampling	2021	SIGMOD	5.2539404e-05
6,186	Dotori: A Key-Value SSD Based KV Store	2023	VLDB	5.1616749e-05
6,394	Endure: A Robust Tuning Paradigm for LSM Trees Under Workload Uncertainty	2022	VLDB	5.0770427e-05
6,456	Toward a Better Understanding and Evaluation of Tree Structures on Flash SSDs	2021	VLDB	5.0505636e-05
7,092	Revisiting the Design of LSM-tree Based OLTP Storage Engine with Persistent Memory	2021	VLDB	4.83025e-05
7,167	TimeUnion: An Efficient Architecture with Unified Data Model for Timeseries Management Systems on Hybrid Cloud Storage	2022	SIGMOD	4.8075544e-05
7,623	Learning to Optimize LSM-trees: Towards A Reinforcement Learning based Key-Value Store for Dynamic Workloads	2023	SIGMOD	4.6890662e-05
7,812	CaaS-LSM: Compaction-as-a-Service for LSM-based Key-Value Stores in Storage Disaggregated Infrastructure	2024	SIGMOD	4.6411266e-05
8,011	CAMAL: Optimizing LSM-trees via Active Learning	2024	SIGMOD	4.6022693e-05
8,333	How to Grow an LSM-tree? Towards Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice	2025	SIGMOD	4.5390511e-05
8,426	Time Series Representation for Visualization in Apache IoTDB	2024	SIGMOD	4.5098472e-05
8,490	SA-LSM: Optimize Data Layout for LSM-tree Based Storage using Survival Analysis	2022	VLDB	4.494994e-05
8,524	Aleph Filter: To Infinity in Constant Time	2024	VLDB	4.4893996e-05
8,624	Limousine: Blending Learned and Classical Indexes to Self-Design Larger-than-Memory Cloud Storage Engines	2024	SIGMOD	4.4786127e-05
8,804	ArceKV: Towards Workload-driven LSM-compactions for Key-Value Store Under Dynamic Workloads	2026	VLDB	4.4424232e-05
8,876	MirrorKV: An Efficient Key-Value Store on Hybrid Cloud Storage with Balanced Performance of Compaction and Querying	2023	SIGMOD	4.4261814e-05
9,069	Structural Designs Meet Optimality: Exploring Optimized LSM-tree Structures in A Colossal Configuration Space	2024	SIGMOD	4.3983078e-05
9,322	Are Joins over LSM-trees Ready? Take RocksDB as an Example	2025	VLDB	4.351469e-05
9,390	Rethinking The Compaction Policies in LSM-trees	2025	SIGMOD	4.341433e-05
9,467	Disco: A Compact Index for LSM-trees	2025	SIGMOD	4.3309383e-05
9,529	Mnemosyne: Dynamic Workload-Aware BF Tuning via Accurate Statistics in LSM trees	2025	SIGMOD	4.3251912e-05
9,760	Practical Dynamic Extension for Sampling Indexes	2023	SIGMOD	4.2838028e-05
9,986	A Multi-tenant Relational OLTP Database at Salesforce	2026	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
10,063	Counting Is All You Need for Instant Tuple Discovery: Enabling Real-Time HTAP in Standalone DBMSs	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,176	Improving Range Scan Performance in LSM-trees with Group Caching	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,182	Making LSM-Tree-based Key-Value Store Practical and Efficient for Multi-Tenant Serverless Cloud Databases	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,567	BACH: Bridging Adjacency List and CSR Format using LSM-Trees for HGTAP Workloads	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,534	The End of Moore’s Law and the Rise of The Data Processor	2021	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
281	LinkBench: a Database Benchmark Based on the Facebook Social Graph	2013	SIGMOD	0.00029084275
379	bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree	2012	SIGMOD	0.00024954332
562	Tree Indexing on Solid State Drives	2010	VLDB	0.00020035385
568	Optimizing Space Amplification in RocksDB	2017	CIDR	0.00019932335
608	Monkey: Optimal Navigable Key-Value Store	2017	SIGMOD	0.00019233548
892	Faster: A Concurrent Key-Value Store with In-Place Updates	2018	SIGMOD	0.00015522869
1,071	Incremental Organization for Data Recording and Warehousing	1997	VLDB	0.00014265647
1,113	Cache-Oblivious String B-trees	2006	PODS	0.00013885755
1,147	FlashStore: High Throughput Persistent Key-Value Store	2010	VLDB	0.00013660843
1,309	Dostoevsky: Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores via Adaptive Removal of Superfluous Merging	2018	SIGMOD	0.00012655712
1,368	SlimDB: A Space-Efficient Key-Value Storage Engine For Semi-Sorted Data	2017	VLDB	0.0001235708
2,153	The Data Calculator*: Data Structure Design and Cost Synthesis from First Principles and Learned Cost Models	2018	SIGMOD	9.418541e-05
2,225	SkimpyStash: RAM Space Skimpy Key-Value Store on Flash-based Storage	2011	SIGMOD	9.2534051e-05
2,528	Pregelix: Big(ger) Graph Analytics on A Dataflow Engine	2015	VLDB	8.5953347e-05
2,606	Design Continuums and the Path Toward Self-Designing Key-Value Stores that Know and Learn	2019	CIDR	8.4621503e-05
3,567	Accordion: Better Memory Organization for LSM Key-Value Stores	2018	VLDB	6.9606988e-05
3,673	LittleTable: A Time-Series Database and Its Uses	2017	SIGMOD	6.8509543e-05
4,639	Fast Scans on Key-Value Stores	2017	VLDB	6.0229334e-05
5,156	Coconut: A Scalable Bottom-Up Approach for Building Data Series Indexes	2018	VLDB	5.6534878e-05
7,173	Coconut Palm: Static and Streaming Data Series Exploration Now in your Palm	2019	SIGMOD	4.8068454e-05
7,467	GeckoFTL: Scalable Flash Translation Techniques For Very Large Flash Devices	2016	SIGMOD	4.7174456e-05

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