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Dostoevsky: Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores via Adaptive Removal of Superfluous Merging

Summary: Dostoevsky uses Lazy Leveling to remove merges from all LSM-tree levels except the largest, lowering update I/O while preserving lookup and storage bounds. It generalizes to Fluid LSM-tree for adaptive, workload-hardware aware merging; implemented atop RocksDB, it empirically dominates state-of-the-art in performance and space. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h2091f5b416fe7cd6
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2018
Pagerank
0.00014232329
Overall Rank
753 | 94.95%
DOI
10.1145/3183713.3196927

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{dayan_sigmod18,
        title = {{Dostoevsky: Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores via Adaptive Removal of Superfluous Merging}},
        author = {Dayan, Niv and Idreos, Stratos},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '18},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3183713.3196927},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3183713.3196927},
        year = {2018}
}

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