SlimDB: A Space-Efficient Key-Value Storage Engine For Semi-Sorted Data
Summary: SlimDB: a space-efficient KV store for semi-sorted data; targets reduced read/write amplification in LSM-tree-based backends. 2-3x faster than LevelDB/RocksDB, less memory for metadata indices, and lower tail read latency on SSDs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Kai Ren (Carnegie Mellon University)
- 2. Qing Zheng (Carnegie Mellon University)
- 3. Joy Arulraj (Carnegie Mellon University)
- 4. Garth Gibson (Carnegie Mellon University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{ren_vldb17,
title = {{SlimDB: A Space-Efficient Key-Value Storage Engine For Semi-Sorted Data}},
author = {Ren, Kai and Zheng, Qing and Arulraj, Joy and Gibson, Garth},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '17},
volume = {10},
number = {13},
pages = {2037--2050},
doi = {10.14778/3130515.3130521},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3130515.3130521},
year = {2017}
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 236 | LinkBench: a Database Benchmark Based on the Facebook Social Graph | 2013 | SIGMOD | 0.00023664907 |
| 258 | bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.00022932099 |
| 400 | Monkey: Optimal Navigable Key-Value Store | 2017 | SIGMOD | 0.00019124757 |
| 513 | Tree Indexing on Solid State Drives | 2010 | VLDB | 0.00017040424 |
| 968 | Incremental Organization for Data Recording and Warehousing | 1997 | VLDB | 0.00012793641 |
| 973 | FlashStore: High Throughput Persistent Key-Value Store | 2010 | VLDB | 0.00012755108 |
| 1,075 | Cache-Oblivious String B-trees | 2006 | PODS | 0.00012157749 |
| 1,665 | SkimpyStash: RAM Space Skimpy Key-Value Store on Flash-based Storage | 2011 | SIGMOD | 9.9368451e-05 |
| 5,783 | Walnut: A Unified Cloud Object Store | 2012 | SIGMOD | 5.9944093e-05 |
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