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On Performance Stability in LSM-based Storage Systems

Summary: Two-phase experimental methodology to quantify write stalls across LSM-tree designs in NoSQL systems. Identifies merge-scheduler design choices that minimize stalls under a fixed I/O bandwidth budget, with extensive Apache AsterixDB experiments validating results. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h70948f0fcdc1d349
Venue
VLDB
Year
2020
Pagerank
6.7915554e-05
Overall Rank
4,121 | 72.31%
DOI
10.14778/3372716.3372719
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BibTeX Citation

@article{luo_vldb20,
        title = {{On Performance Stability in LSM-based Storage Systems}},
        author = {Luo, Chen and Carey, Michael J.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '20},
        volume = {13},
        number = {4},
        pages = {449--462},
        doi = {10.14778/3372716.3372719},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3372716.3372719},
        year = {2020}
}

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1,982 Chucky: A Succinct Cuckoo Filter for LSM-Tree 2021 SIGMOD 9.2570284e-05
3,643 Nova-LSM: A Distributed, Component-based LSM-tree Key-value Store 2021 SIGMOD 7.1406131e-05
3,683 SplinterDB and Maplets: Improving the Tradeoffs in Key-Value Store Compaction Policy 2023 SIGMOD 7.0996633e-05
5,022 Breaking Down Memory Walls: Adaptive Memory Management in LSM-based Storage Systems 2021 VLDB 6.309271e-05
5,041 Dissecting, Designing, and Optimizing LSM-based Data Stores 2022 SIGMOD 6.2998284e-05
5,250 Endure: A Robust Tuning Paradigm for LSM Trees Under Workload Uncertainty 2022 VLDB 6.2092552e-05
6,242 Toward a Better Understanding and Evaluation of Tree Structures on Flash SSDs 2021 VLDB 5.8358009e-05
6,934 Breaking Down Memory Walls in LSM-based Storage Systems 2020 SIGMOD 5.6382919e-05
8,228 ArceKV: Towards Workload-driven LSM-compactions for Key-Value Store Under Dynamic Workloads 2026 VLDB 5.3734043e-05
8,849 Columnar Formats for Schemaless LSM-based Document Stores 2022 VLDB 5.2640252e-05
9,091 MirrorKV: An Efficient Key-Value Store on Hybrid Cloud Storage with Balanced Performance of Compaction and Querying 2023 SIGMOD 5.2258409e-05
9,140 Rethinking The Compaction Policies in LSM-trees 2025 SIGMOD 5.2208299e-05
9,310 Rethink Query Optimization in HTAP Databases 2023 SIGMOD 5.1963298e-05
9,439 FlashAlloc: Dedicating Flash Blocks By Objects 2023 VLDB 5.1760709e-05
10,865 How Much Can RocksDB Chew? Achieving Near-Zero Write Stalls with Sustainable RocksDB 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
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Showing 19 of 19 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
258 bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree 2012 SIGMOD 0.00022932099
400 Monkey: Optimal Navigable Key-Value Store 2017 SIGMOD 0.00019124757
436 Optimizing Space Amplification in RocksDB 2017 CIDR 0.00018312911
513 Tree Indexing on Solid State Drives 2010 VLDB 0.00017040424
753 Dostoevsky: Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores via Adaptive Removal of Superfluous Merging 2018 SIGMOD 0.00014232329
817 SlimDB: A Space-Efficient Key-Value Storage Engine For Semi-Sorted Data 2017 VLDB 0.00013685662
921 AsterixDB: A Scalable, Open Source BDMS 2014 VLDB 0.00013064043
1,034 A Scalable, Predictable Join Operator for Highly Concurrent Data Warehouses 2009 VLDB 0.00012389548
1,313 X-Engine: An Optimized Storage Engine for Large-scale E-commerce Transaction Processing 2019 SIGMOD 0.00011055196
1,422 The Log-Structured Merge-Bush & the Wacky Continuum 2019 SIGMOD 0.00010720711
1,569 Compaction management in distributed key-value datastores 2015 VLDB 0.00010207173
1,918 Predictable Performance for Unpredictable Workloads 2009 VLDB 9.375192e-05
2,009 PIQL: Success-Tolerant Query Processing in the Cloud 2012 VLDB 9.1949132e-05
3,396 Variance Aware Optimization of Parameterized Queries 2010 SIGMOD 7.3386533e-05
4,322 Generalized Scale Independence Through Incremental Precomputation 2013 SIGMOD 6.6629734e-05
4,913 A Top-Down Approach to Achieving Performance Predictability in Database Systems 2017 SIGMOD 6.3548977e-05
4,943 A Comparative Study of Secondary Indexing Techniques in LSM-based NoSQL Databases 2018 SIGMOD 6.3423449e-05
7,593 Efficient Data Ingestion and Query Processing for LSM-Based Storage Systems 2019 VLDB 5.4870235e-05
9,683 An IDEA: An Ingestion Framework for Data Enrichment in AsterixDB 2019 VLDB 5.1412978e-05
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