Efficient Data Ingestion and Query Processing for LSM-Based Storage Systems

Summary: Efficient ingestion and query processing for general-purpose LSM-based storage systems. Proposes batched point-lookups, enhanced secondary indexes, and maintenance strategies; implemented and evaluated in Apache AsterixDB. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h0e8570fecddb00fe
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 5.4879453e-05
Overall Rank: 7,594 | 48.95%
DOI: 10.14778/3303753.3303759

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Authors

1. Chen Luo (University of California Irvine)
2. Michael J. Carey (University of California Irvine)

BibTeX Citation

@article{luo_vldb19,
        title = {{Efficient Data Ingestion and Query Processing for LSM-Based Storage Systems}},
        author = {Luo, Chen and Carey, Michael J.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '19},
        volume = {12},
        number = {5},
        pages = {531--543},
        doi = {10.14778/3303753.3303759},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3303753.3303759},
        year = {2019}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,121	On Performance Stability in LSM-based Storage Systems	2020	VLDB	6.7946812e-05
5,018	Breaking Down Memory Walls: Adaptive Memory Management in LSM-based Storage Systems	2021	VLDB	6.3121723e-05
5,046	Dissecting, Designing, and Optimizing LSM-based Data Stores	2022	SIGMOD	6.3000825e-05
5,852	An LSM-based Tuple Compaction Framework for Apache AsterixDB	2020	VLDB	5.9711113e-05
6,932	Breaking Down Memory Walls in LSM-based Storage Systems	2020	SIGMOD	5.640907e-05
8,840	Columnar Formats for Schemaless LSM-based Document Stores	2022	VLDB	5.2665183e-05
9,646	Are Joins over LSM-trees Ready? Take RocksDB as an Example	2025	VLDB	5.1453267e-05
10,131	Optimizing Time Series Queries with Versions	2024	SIGMOD	5.0751052e-05
10,164	NEXT: A New Secondary Index Framework for LSM-based Data Storage	2025	SIGMOD	5.0682654e-05
10,355	A Multi-tenant Relational OLTP Database at Salesforce	2026	CIDR	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
163	DB2 with BLU Acceleration: So Much More than Just a Column Store	2013	VLDB	0.0002749118
258	bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree	2012	SIGMOD	0.00022939599
400	Monkey: Optimal Navigable Key-Value Store	2017	SIGMOD	0.00019129175
754	Dostoevsky: Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores via Adaptive Removal of Superfluous Merging	2018	SIGMOD	0.00014236015
922	AsterixDB: A Scalable, Open Source BDMS	2014	VLDB	0.00013068048
951	Algorithms for Creating Indexes for Very Large Tables Without Quiescing Updates	1992	SIGMOD	0.00012893557
1,569	Compaction management in distributed key-value datastores	2015	VLDB	0.00010211433
1,875	Storage Management in AsterixDB	2014	VLDB	9.4576907e-05
3,762	Dimensions Based Data Clustering and Zone Maps	2017	VLDB	7.0421949e-05
4,946	A Comparative Study of Secondary Indexing Techniques in LSM-based NoSQL Databases	2018	SIGMOD	6.3435811e-05
8,472	Lightweight Indexing of Observational Data in Log-Structured Storage	2014	VLDB	5.3349102e-05
9,204	Fast and Adaptive Indexing of Multi-Dimensional Observational Data	2016	VLDB	5.2080128e-05

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