LittleTable: A Time-Series Database and Its Uses

Summary: LittleTable: time-series relational DB clustering by timestamp and hierarchical key for fast recent access and full history. Single-writer, append-only, relaxed durability yield crash recovery and disk throughput (first match ~31 ms; 500k rows/s). (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hec1cd3c64a609595
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 7.4000362e-05
Overall Rank: 3,344 | 77.52%
DOI: 10.1145/3035918.3056102

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Authors

1. Sean Rhea (Cisco)
2. Eric Wang (Cisco)
3. Edmund Wong (Cisco)
4. Ethan Atkins (Cisco)
5. Nat Storer (Cisco)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{rhea_sigmod17,
        title = {{LittleTable: A Time-Series Database and Its Uses}},
        author = {Rhea, Sean and Wang, Eric and Wong, Edmund and Atkins, Ethan and Storer, Nat},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '17},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3035918.3056102},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3035918.3056102},
        year = {2017}
}

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891	SuRF: Practical Range Query Filtering with Fast Succinct Tries	2018	SIGMOD	0.00013245926
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2,861	LedgerDB: A Centralized Ledger Database for Universal Audit and Verification	2020	VLDB	7.932894e-05
8,082	Krypton: Real-time Serving and Analytical SQL Engine at ByteDance	2023	VLDB	5.3942942e-05
9,130	Rethinking The Compaction Policies in LSM-trees	2025	SIGMOD	5.2233025e-05
9,181	Structural Designs Meet Optimality: Exploring Optimized LSM-tree Structures in A Colossal Configuration Space	2024	SIGMOD	5.2118872e-05
10,652	Improving Range Scan Performance in LSM-trees with Group Caching	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
10,760	KDSelector: A Framework of Knowledge-Enhanced and Data-Efficient Selector Learning for Anomaly Detection Model Selection in Time Series	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,315	Improving Time Series Data Compression in Apache IoTDB	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,659	TUCKET: A Tensor Time Series Data Structure for Efficient and Accurate Factor Analysis over Time Ranges	2024	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
139	Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services	2011	CIDR	0.00029480065
258	bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree	2012	SIGMOD	0.00022939599
672	The TileDB Array Data Storage Manager	2017	VLDB	0.0001489638
687	Access Methods For Multiversion Data	1989	SIGMOD	0.00014763858
815	Design, Implementation, and Performance of the LHAM Log-Structured History Data Access Method	1998	VLDB	0.00013689839
2,766	LogBase: A Scalable Log-structured Database System in the Cloud	2012	VLDB	8.0432817e-05
3,077	The Performance Of A Multiversion Access Method	1990	SIGMOD	7.6745669e-05

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