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Key-Value Storage Engines
Summary: Survey of KV storage engines: core structures, memory hierarchy, caching, concurrency, updates, and mixed OLAP/OLTP workloads. Introduces a unified modeling framework and a first descriptive language to compare designs; notes AI-era challenges (neural nets, graphs, data versioning).
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Paper ID
h8691e78c3ab65993
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2020
Pagerank
7.2293566e-05
Overall Rank
3,525 | 76.31%
DOI
10.1145/3318464.3383133
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@inproceedings{idreos_sigmod20,
title = {{Key-Value Storage Engines}},
author = {Idreos, Stratos and Callaghan, Mark},
series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3318464.3383133},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3383133},
year = {2020}
}
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