ArceKV: Towards Workload-driven LSM-compactions for Key-Value Store Under Dynamic Workloads

Summary: ArceKV targets dynamic KV workloads with workload-driven LSM compactions, moving beyond static read/write-ratio tuning. It relaxes traditional LSM constraints via ElasticLSM and uses the lightweight Arce decision engine to choose among compactions/write stalls, yielding ~3x gains on shifting workloads. (summarized by gpt-5.4-mini on Apr 12 2026)

Paper ID: h8e884133dad62b3f
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2026
Pagerank: 5.3734043e-05
Overall Rank: 8,228 | 44.70%
DOI: 10.14778/3796195.3796208
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Authors

1. Junfeng Liu (Nanyang Technological University)
2. Haoxuan Xie (Nanyang Technological University)
3. Siqiang Luo (Nanyang Technological University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{liu_vldb26,
        title = {{ArceKV: Towards Workload-driven LSM-compactions for Key-Value Store Under Dynamic Workloads}},
        author = {Liu, Junfeng and Xie, Haoxuan and Luo, Siqiang},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '26},
        volume = {19},
        number = {5},
        pages = {958--972},
        doi = {10.14778/3796195.3796208},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3796195.3796208},
        year = {2026}
}

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258	bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree	2012	SIGMOD	0.00022932099
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585	Workload-Aware Database Monitoring and Consolidation	2011	SIGMOD	0.00015942562
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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
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2,813	OceanBase: A 707 Million tpmC Distributed Relational Database System	2022	VLDB	7.9773891e-05
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3,480	Cosine: A Cloud-Cost Optimized Self-Designing Key-Value Storage Engine	2022	VLDB	7.2661848e-05
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3,941	DINOMO: An Elastic, Scalable, High-Performance Key-Value Store for Disaggregated Persistent Memory	2022	VLDB	6.9106858e-05
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4,198	Proteus: A Self-Designing Range Filter	2022	SIGMOD	6.7385809e-05
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4,878	Oasis: An Optimal Disjoint Segmented Learned Range Filter	2024	VLDB	6.369385e-05
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7,909	CAMAL: Optimizing LSM-trees via Active Learning	2024	SIGMOD	5.4266123e-05
8,326	How to Grow an LSM-tree? Towards Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice	2025	SIGMOD	5.3522236e-05
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