LSM-Trees and B-Trees: The Best of Both Worlds
Summary: Online transition between LSM-Trees and B-Trees in a KV store to adapt to changing workloads. Runtime switching combines update-efficient LSM behavior with fast short-range lookups, delivering the best of both worlds for diverse data-management workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Varun Jain (Harvard University)
- 2. James Lennon (Harvard University)
- 3. Harshita Gupta (Harvard University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{jain_sigmod19,
title = {{LSM-Trees and B-Trees: The Best of Both Worlds}},
author = {Jain, Varun and Lennon, James and Gupta, Harshita},
series = {{SIGMOD} '19},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3299869.3300097},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3299869.3300097},
year = {2019}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,489 | Cosine: A Cloud-Cost Optimized Self-Designing Key-Value Storage Engine | 2022 | VLDB | 7.2421958e-05 |
| 10,174 | CloudJump: Optimizing Cloud Databases for Cloud Storages | 2022 | VLDB | 5.0559291e-05 |
| 10,972 | Enhancing Database Write Performance with the Write Operation Pushdown Framework | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9605343e-05 |
| 11,557 | Native Cloud Object Storage in Db2 Warehouse: Implementing a Fast and Cost-Efficient Cloud Storage Architecture | 2024 | SIGMOD | 4.9605343e-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 402 | Monkey: Optimal Navigable Key-Value Store | 2017 | SIGMOD | 0.00019070605 |
| 761 | Dostoevsky: Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores via Adaptive Removal of Superfluous Merging | 2018 | SIGMOD | 0.00014191047 |
| 1,611 | The Data Calculator*: Data Structure Design and Cost Synthesis from First Principles and Learned Cost Models | 2018 | SIGMOD | 0.00010066379 |
| 1,900 | Design Continuums and the Path Toward Self-Designing Key-Value Stores that Know and Learn | 2019 | CIDR | 9.3926585e-05 |
| 4,897 | Design Tradeoffs of Data Access Methods | 2016 | SIGMOD | 6.3489205e-05 |
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