bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree
Summary: Introduces bLSM, an LSM-tree blending log-structured and B-tree reads for near-optimal reads and high write performance. Spring-and-gear merge scheduler bounds latency with steady progress; Bloom filters curb lookups and reads stop after first version. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Russell Sears (Yahoo)
- 2. Raghu Ramakrishnan (Yahoo)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{sears_sigmod12,
title = {{bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree}},
author = {Sears, Russell and Ramakrishnan, Raghu},
series = {{SIGMOD} '12},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2213836.2213862},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2213836.2213862},
year = {2012}
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00044066403 |
| 513 | Tree Indexing on Solid State Drives | 2010 | VLDB | 0.00017044842 |
| 789 | Don't Thrash: How to Cache Your Hash on Flash | 2012 | VLDB | 0.0001397781 |
| 815 | Design, Implementation, and Performance of the LHAM Log-Structured History Data Access Method | 1998 | VLDB | 0.00013689839 |
| 1,074 | Cache-Oblivious String B-trees | 2006 | PODS | 0.00012162592 |
| 1,302 | Apache Hadoop Goes Realtime at Facebook | 2011 | SIGMOD | 0.00011111126 |
| 2,894 | Rose: Compressed, log-structured replication | 2008 | VLDB | 7.9005767e-05 |
| 5,303 | Segment-Based Recovery: Write-ahead logging revisited | 2009 | VLDB | 6.1876809e-05 |
| 5,782 | Walnut: A Unified Cloud Object Store | 2012 | SIGMOD | 5.9969438e-05 |
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