Enabling Low Tail Latency on Multicore Key-Value Stores

Summary: RStore is a multicore KVS whose primary goal is low tail latency rather than throughput, achieved via asynchronous programming, message-passing, and log-structured storage on modern hardware. It scales with cores while keeping low, predictable latency, contrasting traditional KVS designs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h5d1642bfcc12b010
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 6.4696727e-05
Overall Rank: 4,682 | 68.54%
DOI: 10.14778/3384345.3384356
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Authors

1. Lucas Lersch (SAP; Technical University of Dresden)
2. Ivan Schreter (SAP)
3. Ismail Oukid (Snowflake)
4. Wolfgang Lehner (Technical University of Dresden)

BibTeX Citation

@article{lersch_vldb20,
        title = {{Enabling Low Tail Latency on Multicore Key-Value Stores}},
        author = {Lersch, Lucas and Schreter, Ivan and Oukid, Ismail and Lehner, Wolfgang},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '20},
        volume = {13},
        number = {7},
        pages = {1091--1104},
        doi = {10.14778/3384345.3384356},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3384345.3384356},
        year = {2020}
}

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2,507	Viper: An Efficient Hybrid PMem-DRAM Key-Value Store	2021	VLDB	8.3688413e-05
2,582	Are Updatable Learned Indexes Ready?	2022	VLDB	8.2641447e-05
9,333	PerMA-Bench: Benchmarking Persistent Memory Access	2022	VLDB	5.1916822e-05
9,876	Bonspiel: Low Tail Latency Transactions in Geo-Distributed Databases	2025	VLDB	5.115241e-05
10,034	LavaStore: ByteDance's Purpose-built, High-performance, Cost-effective Local Storage Engine for Cloud Services	2024	VLDB	5.0901047e-05
10,273	Darwin: Scale-In Stream Processing	2022	CIDR	5.0468382e-05
10,689	Reducing Tail Latency in Storage-Disaggregated Database Systems	2026	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
10,955	Why We Created Yet Another Memory Framework: Understanding MGA’s Role in Next-Gen Database Systems	2026	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
11,585	Blitzcrank: Fast Semantic Compression for In-memory Online Transaction Processing	2024	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
70	The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite)	2007	VLDB	0.00037851432
157	OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There	2008	SIGMOD	0.00028316479
365	Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash	2011	CIDR	0.00019935521
400	Monkey: Optimal Navigable Key-Value Store	2017	SIGMOD	0.00019124757
502	FPTree: A Hybrid SCM-DRAM Persistent and Concurrent B-Tree for Storage Class Memory	2016	SIGMOD	0.00017250394
542	FOEDUS: OLTP Engine for a Thousand Cores and NVRAM	2015	SIGMOD	0.00016654017
546	Faster: A Concurrent Key-Value Store with In-Place Updates	2018	SIGMOD	0.00016584272
613	Scalable Logging through Emerging Non-Volatile Memory	2014	VLDB	0.00015565961
630	Persistent B+-Trees in Non-Volatile Main Memory	2015	VLDB	0.00015412011
856	Storage Management in the NVRAM Era	2014	VLDB	0.000134246
1,398	LLAMA: A Cache/Storage Subsystem for Modern Hardware	2013	VLDB	0.00010778761
1,437	Write-Behind Logging	2017	VLDB	0.00010651307
2,674	Asynchronous Memory Access Chaining	2016	VLDB	8.1445101e-05
2,766	LogBase: A Scalable Log-structured Database System in the Cloud	2012	VLDB	8.039771e-05
2,926	Interleaving with Coroutines: A Practical Approach for Robust Index Joins	2018	VLDB	7.8446029e-05
4,900	Micro-architectural Analysis of In-memory OLTP	2016	SIGMOD	6.3625602e-05
5,719	Indexing in an Actor-Oriented Database	2017	CIDR	6.0162188e-05
9,629	Definition, Detection, and Recovery of Single-Page Failures, a Fourth Class of Database Failures	2012	VLDB	5.1472458e-05

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