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SkimpyStash: RAM Space Skimpy Key-Value Store on Flash-based Storage

Summary: Extremely RAM-frugal K/V store: hash directory in RAM, bucket chains on flash, with a RAM pointer to the chain start; total ~1 byte per key-value. Two-choice load balancing with per-slot Bloom filters, plus flash-page compaction to pack chains, yields scalable 10^4–10^5 ops/s on real servers. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h64d2738d3b69c987
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2011
Pagerank
9.9107164e-05
Overall Rank
1,671 | 88.81%
DOI
10.1145/1989323.1989327

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{debnath_sigmod11,
        title = {{SkimpyStash: RAM Space Skimpy Key-Value Store on Flash-based Storage}},
        author = {Debnath, Biplob and Sengupta, Sudipta and Li, Jin},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '11},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1989323.1989327},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1989323.1989327},
        year = {2011}
}

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1,402 LLAMA: A Cache/Storage Subsystem for Modern Hardware 2013 VLDB 0.00010754882
1,429 The Log-Structured Merge-Bush & the Wacky Continuum 2019 SIGMOD 0.00010685393
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4,087 Indexing on Modern Hardware: Hekaton and Beyond 2014 SIGMOD 6.7974724e-05
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5,339 OctopusFS: A Distributed File System with Tiered Storage Management 2017 SIGMOD 6.1607752e-05
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9,698 The End of Moore’s Law and the Rise of The Data Processor 2021 VLDB 5.1258854e-05
10,264 From FASTER to F2: Evolving Concurrent Key-Value Store Designs for Large Skewed Workloads 2025 VLDB 5.0380426e-05
10,595 Zeno Filter: To Infinity in Tiny Steps 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,455 A Secure Search Engine for the Personal Cloud 2015 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,459 Purity: Building Fast, Highly-Available Enterprise Flash Storage from Commodity Components 2015 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,501 A Scalable Search Engine for Mass Storage Smart Objects 2015 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
515 Tree Indexing on Solid State Drives 2010 VLDB 0.00016989841
975 FlashStore: High Throughput Persistent Key-Value Store 2010 VLDB 0.00012720722
984 Lazy-Adaptive Tree: An Optimized Index Structure for Flash Devices 2009 VLDB 0.00012672529
1,016 Flashing Up the Storage Layer 2008 VLDB 0.00012461604
1,127 FlashLogging: Exploiting Flash Devices for Synchronous Logging Performance 2009 SIGMOD 0.00011887959
1,465 Online Maintenance of Very Large Random Samples on Flash Storage 2008 VLDB 0.00010546726
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