Mnemosyne: Dynamic Workload-Aware BF Tuning via Accurate Statistics in LSM trees

Summary: Mnemosyne dynamically reallocates Bloom Filters for evolving LSM trees, tuning memory without workload knowledge. It adds Merlin, a sliding-window per-file tracker, and Mnemosyne+ with a refined per-file cost model. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hce3bcec28b342d1d
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 5.2947307e-05
Overall Rank: 8,647 | 41.89%
DOI: 10.1145/3725327
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Authors

1. Zichen Zhu (Boston University)
2. Yanpeng Wei (Tsinghua University)
3. Ju Hyoung Mun (Brandeis University)
4. Manos Athanassoulis (Boston University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{zhu_sigmod25,
        title = {{Mnemosyne: Dynamic Workload-Aware BF Tuning via Accurate Statistics in LSM trees}},
        author = {Zhu, Zichen and Wei, Yanpeng and Mun, Ju Hyoung and Athanassoulis, Manos},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '25},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3725327},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3725327},
        year = {2025}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,228	ArceKV: Towards Workload-driven LSM-compactions for Key-Value Store Under Dynamic Workloads	2026	VLDB	5.3734043e-05
10,453	Dynamic Flat Filter: A Unified Framework for Scalable and Stable Fingerprint-Based Filters	2026	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
10,663	Improving Range Scan Performance in LSM-trees with Group Caching	2026	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05

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258	bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree	2012	SIGMOD	0.00022932099
400	Monkey: Optimal Navigable Key-Value Store	2017	SIGMOD	0.00019124757
461	Query-based Workload Forecasting for Self-Driving Database Management Systems	2018	SIGMOD	0.00017841988
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
1,313	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
1,846	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
2,771	Constructing and Analyzing the LSM Compaction Design Space	2021	VLDB	8.0338932e-05
2,788	Lethe: A Tunable Delete-Aware LSM Engine	2020	SIGMOD	8.0114055e-05
2,868	Spooky: Granulating LSM-Tree Compactions Correctly	2022	VLDB	7.9205462e-05
3,623	Apache IoTDB: A Time Series Database for IoT Applications	2023	SIGMOD	7.150278e-05
3,672	Leaper: A Learned Prefetcher for Cache Invalidation in LSM-tree based Storage Engines	2020	VLDB	7.1084283e-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
5,022	Breaking Down Memory Walls: Adaptive Memory Management in LSM-based Storage Systems	2021	VLDB	6.309271e-05
5,084	InfiniFilter: Expanding Filters to Infinity and Beyond	2023	SIGMOD	6.2824822e-05
6,179	Catalyst: Optimizing Cache Management for Large In-memory Key-value Systems	2023	VLDB	5.8576036e-05
6,486	Bf-Tree: A Modern Read-Write-Optimized Concurrent Larger-Than-Memory Range Index	2024	VLDB	5.766886e-05
6,828	PIM-tree: A Skew-resistant Index for Processing-in-Memory	2023	VLDB	5.6690684e-05
6,934	Breaking Down Memory Walls in LSM-based Storage Systems	2020	SIGMOD	5.6382919e-05
7,362	Optimizing Collections of Bloom Filters within a Space Budget	2024	VLDB	5.540567e-05

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