Aleph Filter: To Infinity in Constant Time

Summary: Aleph Filter is a dynamically growing approximate membership filter with O(1) inserts, queries, and deletions regardless of data size. Given an eventual-growth estimate, it preserves static-filter-level memory–FPR tradeoffs—avoiding the usual expansion compromises. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h6928be69a3f34d7b
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 5.4193905e-05
Overall Rank: 7,944 | 46.61%
DOI: 10.14778/3681954.3682027
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Authors

1. Niv Dayan (University of Toronto)
2. Ioana-Oriana Bercea (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
3. Rasmus Pagh (University of Copenhagen)

BibTeX Citation

@article{dayan_vldb24,
        title = {{Aleph Filter: To Infinity in Constant Time}},
        author = {Dayan, Niv and Bercea, Ioana-Oriana and Pagh, Rasmus},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '24},
        volume = {17},
        number = {11},
        pages = {3644--3656},
        doi = {10.14778/3681954.3682027},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3681954.3682027},
        year = {2024}
}

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9,655	Sphinx: A Succinct Perfect Hash Index for x86	2025	VLDB	5.142891e-05
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10,518	Sublime: Sublinear Error & Space for Unbounded Skewed Streams	2026	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
10,529	Zeno Filter: To Infinity in Tiny Steps	2026	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
10,626	Aeris Filter: A Strongly and Monotonically Adaptive Range Filter	2026	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
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40	The Case for Learned Index Structures	2018	SIGMOD	0.00046363107
400	Monkey: Optimal Navigable Key-Value Store	2017	SIGMOD	0.00019124757
546	Faster: A Concurrent Key-Value Store with In-Place Updates	2018	SIGMOD	0.00016584272
753	Dostoevsky: Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores via Adaptive Removal of Superfluous Merging	2018	SIGMOD	0.00014232329
789	Don't Thrash: How to Cache Your Hash on Flash	2012	VLDB	0.00013972179
817	SlimDB: A Space-Efficient Key-Value Storage Engine For Semi-Sorted Data	2017	VLDB	0.00013685662
889	SuRF: Practical Range Query Filtering with Fast Succinct Tries	2018	SIGMOD	0.00013243846
973	FlashStore: High Throughput Persistent Key-Value Store	2010	VLDB	0.00012755108
1,422	The Log-Structured Merge-Bush & the Wacky Continuum	2019	SIGMOD	0.00010720711
1,665	SkimpyStash: RAM Space Skimpy Key-Value Store on Flash-based Storage	2011	SIGMOD	9.9368451e-05
1,846	Morton Filters: Faster, Space-Efficient Cuckoo Filters via Biasing, Compression, and Decoupled Logical Sparsity	2018	VLDB	9.511501e-05
1,891	Design Continuums and the Path Toward Self-Designing Key-Value Stores that Know and Learn	2019	CIDR	9.4233024e-05
1,982	Chucky: A Succinct Cuckoo Filter for LSM-Tree	2021	SIGMOD	9.2570284e-05
2,073	A General-Purpose Counting Filter: Making Every Bit Count	2017	SIGMOD	9.0833741e-05
2,664	Rosetta: A Robust Space-Time Optimized Range Filter for Key-Value Stores	2020	SIGMOD	8.1532061e-05
2,839	SNARF: A Learning-Enhanced Range Filter	2022	VLDB	7.9490277e-05
3,683	SplinterDB and Maplets: Improving the Tradeoffs in Key-Value Store Compaction Policy	2023	SIGMOD	7.0996633e-05
3,714	Vector Quotient Filters: Overcoming the Time/Space Trade-Off in Filter Design	2021	SIGMOD	7.0749199e-05
4,198	Proteus: A Self-Designing Range Filter	2022	SIGMOD	6.7385809e-05
4,627	Stacked Filters: Learning to Filter by Structure	2021	VLDB	6.4939164e-05
4,753	GRF: A Global Range Filter for LSM-Trees with Shape Encoding	2024	SIGMOD	6.4334982e-05
4,878	Oasis: An Optimal Disjoint Segmented Learned Range Filter	2024	VLDB	6.369385e-05
4,950	Grafite: Taming Adversarial Queries with Optimal Range Filters	2024	SIGMOD	6.339603e-05
5,084	InfiniFilter: Expanding Filters to Infinity and Beyond	2023	SIGMOD	6.2824822e-05
6,195	Prefix Filter: Practically and Theoretically Better Than Bloom	2022	VLDB	5.8528165e-05
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