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Breaking Down Memory Walls: Adaptive Memory Management in LSM-based Storage Systems

Summary: Adaptive memory management for LSM storage breaks memory walls across components and the write-memory–buffer-cache boundary. Partitioned memory with flush policies reduces write costs; a tuner balances write memory and cache, evaluated in AsterixDB (YCSB, TPC-C). (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h41d3cdef5c55dc79
Venue
VLDB
Year
2021
Pagerank
6.309271e-05
Overall Rank
5,022 | 66.25%
DOI
10.14778/3430915.3430916
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BibTeX Citation

@article{luo_vldb21,
        title = {{Breaking Down Memory Walls: Adaptive Memory Management in LSM-based Storage Systems}},
        author = {Luo, Chen and Carey, Michael J.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '21},
        volume = {14},
        number = {3},
        pages = {241--254},
        doi = {10.14778/3430915.3430916},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3430915.3430916},
        year = {2021}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
3,643 Nova-LSM: A Distributed, Component-based LSM-tree Key-value Store 2021 SIGMOD 7.1406131e-05
5,041 Dissecting, Designing, and Optimizing LSM-based Data Stores 2022 SIGMOD 6.2998284e-05
6,123 Learning to Optimize LSM-trees: Towards A Reinforcement Learning based Key-Value Store for Dynamic Workloads 2023 SIGMOD 5.8771312e-05
6,486 Bf-Tree: A Modern Read-Write-Optimized Concurrent Larger-Than-Memory Range Index 2024 VLDB 5.766886e-05
7,909 CAMAL: Optimizing LSM-trees via Active Learning 2024 SIGMOD 5.4266123e-05
8,228 ArceKV: Towards Workload-driven LSM-compactions for Key-Value Store Under Dynamic Workloads 2026 VLDB 5.3734043e-05
8,326 How to Grow an LSM-tree? Towards Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice 2025 SIGMOD 5.3522236e-05
8,647 Mnemosyne: Dynamic Workload-Aware BF Tuning via Accurate Statistics in LSM trees 2025 SIGMOD 5.2947307e-05
9,064 Aster: Enhancing LSM-structures for Scalable Graph Database 2025 SIGMOD 5.2270607e-05
9,140 Rethinking The Compaction Policies in LSM-trees 2025 SIGMOD 5.2208299e-05
9,191 Structural Designs Meet Optimality: Exploring Optimized LSM-tree Structures in A Colossal Configuration Space 2024 SIGMOD 5.20942e-05
9,654 Are Joins over LSM-trees Ready? Take RocksDB as an Example 2025 VLDB 5.142891e-05
10,669 Making LSM-Tree-based Key-Value Store Practical and Efficient for Multi-Tenant Serverless Cloud Databases 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,952 Lakebase: Serverless Postgres over Open Lake Storage 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
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Showing 29 of 29 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
78 Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning 2017 SIGMOD 0.00036675568
128 An Evaluation of Buffer Management Strategies for Relational Database Systems 1985 VLDB 0.00030399615
212 The LRU-K Page Replacement Algorithm For Database Disk Buffering 1993 SIGMOD 0.00024758235
258 bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree 2012 SIGMOD 0.00022932099
314 An End-to-End Automatic Cloud Database Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning 2019 SIGMOD 0.00021276452
322 Tuning Database Configuration Parameters with iTuned 2009 VLDB 0.00021034201
400 Monkey: Optimal Navigable Key-Value Store 2017 SIGMOD 0.00019124757
436 Optimizing Space Amplification in RocksDB 2017 CIDR 0.00018312911
492 Database Tuning Advisor for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 2004 VLDB 0.00017406029
508 Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2 2006 VLDB 0.00017083245
593 2Q: A Low Overhead High Performance Buffer Management Replacement Algorithm 1994 VLDB 0.00015829023
607 A Mechanism for Managing the Buffer Pool in a Relational Database System Using the Hot Set Model 1982 VLDB 0.00015595949
753 Dostoevsky: Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores via Adaptive Removal of Superfluous Merging 2018 SIGMOD 0.00014232329
817 SlimDB: A Space-Efficient Key-Value Storage Engine For Semi-Sorted Data 2017 VLDB 0.00013685662
921 AsterixDB: A Scalable, Open Source BDMS 2014 VLDB 0.00013064043
1,218 PolarFS: An Ultra-low Latency and Failure Resilient Distributed File System for Shared Storage Cloud Database 2018 VLDB 0.00011484231
1,313 X-Engine: An Optimized Storage Engine for Large-scale E-commerce Transaction Processing 2019 SIGMOD 0.00011055196
1,422 The Log-Structured Merge-Bush & the Wacky Continuum 2019 SIGMOD 0.00010720711
1,874 Storage Management in AsterixDB 2014 VLDB 9.4550801e-05
2,664 Rosetta: A Robust Space-Time Optimized Range Filter for Key-Value Stores 2020 SIGMOD 8.1532061e-05
2,788 Lethe: A Tunable Delete-Aware LSM Engine 2020 SIGMOD 8.0114055e-05
2,996 Accordion: Better Memory Organization for LSM Key-Value Stores 2018 VLDB 7.7670057e-05
3,032 iBTune: Individualized Buffer Tuning for Large-scale Cloud Databases 2019 VLDB 7.7317595e-05
4,121 On Performance Stability in LSM-based Storage Systems 2020 VLDB 6.7915554e-05
4,943 A Comparative Study of Secondary Indexing Techniques in LSM-based NoSQL Databases 2018 SIGMOD 6.3423449e-05
5,969 Speedup Your Analytics: Automatic Parameter Tuning for Databases and Big Data Systems 2019 VLDB 5.9296488e-05
6,934 Breaking Down Memory Walls in LSM-based Storage Systems 2020 SIGMOD 5.6382919e-05
7,593 Efficient Data Ingestion and Query Processing for LSM-Based Storage Systems 2019 VLDB 5.4870235e-05
9,683 An IDEA: An Ingestion Framework for Data Enrichment in AsterixDB 2019 VLDB 5.1412978e-05
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