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Accordion: Better Memory Organization for LSM Key-Value Stores

Summary: Accordion re-applies LSM principles to in-memory organization, reducing fragmented layouts and compaction pressure in managed-language key-value stores. Integrated into Apache HBase, it delivers double-digit gains while reducing write slowdown and disk wear. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
hc32bcbd6a0f69548
Venue
VLDB
Year
2018
Pagerank
7.7414696e-05
Overall Rank
3,012 | 79.82%
DOI
10.14778/3229863.3229873
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BibTeX Citation

@article{bortnikov_vldb18,
        title = {{Accordion: Better Memory Organization for LSM Key-Value Stores}},
        author = {Bortnikov, Edward and Braginsky, Anastasia and Hillel, Eshcar and Keidar, Idit and Sheffi, Gali},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '18},
        volume = {11},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1863--1875},
        doi = {10.14778/3229863.3229873},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3229863.3229873},
        year = {2018}
}

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1,991 Chucky: A Succinct Cuckoo Filter for LSM-Tree 2021 SIGMOD 9.2264312e-05
2,667 Rosetta: A Robust Space-Time Optimized Range Filter for Key-Value Stores 2020 SIGMOD 8.1324472e-05
2,882 Spooky: Granulating LSM-Tree Compactions Correctly 2022 VLDB 7.894356e-05
3,650 Nova-LSM: A Distributed, Component-based LSM-tree Key-value Store 2021 SIGMOD 7.1170026e-05
5,046 Breaking Down Memory Walls: Adaptive Memory Management in LSM-based Storage Systems 2021 VLDB 6.2884087e-05
5,272 Endure: A Robust Tuning Paradigm for LSM Trees Under Workload Uncertainty 2022 VLDB 6.1887235e-05
6,137 Learning to Optimize LSM-trees: Towards A Reinforcement Learning based Key-Value Store for Dynamic Workloads 2023 SIGMOD 5.8576977e-05
6,255 Toward a Better Understanding and Evaluation of Tree Structures on Flash SSDs 2021 VLDB 5.8165041e-05
6,513 Revisiting the Design of LSM-tree Based OLTP Storage Engine with Persistent Memory 2021 VLDB 5.7438448e-05
6,954 Breaking Down Memory Walls in LSM-based Storage Systems 2020 SIGMOD 5.6196724e-05
7,925 CAMAL: Optimizing LSM-trees via Active Learning 2024 SIGMOD 5.4086685e-05
8,245 ArceKV: Towards Workload-driven LSM-compactions for Key-Value Store Under Dynamic Workloads 2026 VLDB 5.3556365e-05
8,342 How to Grow an LSM-tree? Towards Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice 2025 SIGMOD 5.3345258e-05
8,983 FishStore: Faster Ingestion with Subset Hashing 2019 SIGMOD 5.2317424e-05
9,162 Rethinking The Compaction Policies in LSM-trees 2025 SIGMOD 5.2035666e-05
9,681 Are Joins over LSM-trees Ready? Take RocksDB as an Example 2025 VLDB 5.1258854e-05
10,739 PartitionKV: Redesigning LSM-tree KV Stores on NVMs with Adaptive Partitioning for Reducing Write Stalls and Amplification 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
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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
106 Quickly Generating Billion-Record Synthetic Databases 1994 SIGMOD 0.00033563032
261 bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree 2012 SIGMOD 0.00022862412
818 Design, Implementation, and Performance of the LHAM Log-Structured History Data Access Method 1998 VLDB 0.00013657405
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