Dynamic read & write optimization with TurtleKV

Summary: TurtleKV introduces TurtleTree, a read/write-balanced on-disk structure with flexible read-/write-memory knobs, enabling dynamic workload retuning without data restructuring or in-memory bottlenecks. Delivers state-of-the-art or superior YCSB performance across inserts, mixed workloads, point queries, and scans. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Aug 17 2026)

Paper ID: h1da60e8ef254b0af
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2026
Pagerank: 4.9769913e-05
Overall Rank: 10,768 | 27.63%
DOI: 10.14778/3819518.3819523
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Authors

1. Tony Astolfi (MathWorks; Tufts University)
2. Vidya Silai (MathWorks)
3. Darby Huye (Tufts University)
4. Lan Liu (Tufts University)
5. Raja R. Sambasivan (Tufts University)
6. Johes Bater (Tufts University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{astolfi_vldb26,
        title = {{Dynamic read \& write optimization with TurtleKV}},
        author = {Astolfi, Tony and Silai, Vidya and Huye, Darby and Liu, Lan and Sambasivan, Raja R. and Bater, Johes},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '26},
        volume = {19},
        number = {9},
        pages = {1907--1920},
        doi = {10.14778/3819518.3819523},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3819518.3819523},
        year = {2026}
}

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