Morton Filters: Faster, Space-Efficient Cuckoo Filters via Biasing, Compression, and Decoupled Logical Sparsity

Summary: Morton filters improve cuckoo-filter lookup, insertion, and deletion throughput via biased single-hash placement, compressed logical sparsity, and embedded metadata. Operations often touch one cache line while matching or slightly beating cuckoo-filter space efficiency. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: heffda162c688abe2
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 9.511501e-05
Overall Rank: 1,846 | 87.60%
DOI: 10.14778/3213880.3213884

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Authors

1. Alex D. Breslow (AMD)
2. Nuwan S. Jayasena (AMD)

BibTeX Citation

@article{breslow_vldb18,
        title = {{Morton Filters: Faster, Space-Efficient Cuckoo Filters via Biasing, Compression, and Decoupled Logical Sparsity}},
        author = {Breslow, Alex D. and Jayasena, Nuwan S.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '18},
        volume = {11},
        number = {9},
        pages = {1041--1055},
        doi = {10.14778/3213880.3213884},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3213880.3213884},
        year = {2018}
}

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1,982	Chucky: A Succinct Cuckoo Filter for LSM-Tree	2021	SIGMOD	9.2570284e-05
3,285	Performance-Optimal Filtering: Bloom Overtakes Cuckoo at High Throughput	2019	VLDB	7.4525495e-05
3,714	Vector Quotient Filters: Overcoming the Time/Space Trade-Off in Filter Design	2021	SIGMOD	7.0749199e-05
3,981	BurstSketch: Finding Bursts in Data Streams	2021	SIGMOD	6.875616e-05
4,627	Stacked Filters: Learning to Filter by Structure	2021	VLDB	6.4939164e-05
5,041	Dissecting, Designing, and Optimizing LSM-based Data Stores	2022	SIGMOD	6.2998284e-05
5,084	InfiniFilter: Expanding Filters to Infinity and Beyond	2023	SIGMOD	6.2824822e-05
6,195	Prefix Filter: Practically and Theoretically Better Than Bloom	2022	VLDB	5.8528165e-05
7,186	Building Fast and Compact Sketches for Approximately Multi-Set Multi-Membership Querying	2021	SIGMOD	5.5886598e-05
7,643	Stingy Sketch: A Sketch Framework for Accurate and Fast Frequency Estimation	2022	VLDB	5.4747961e-05
7,878	Double-Anonymous Sketch: Achieving Top-K-fairness for Finding Global Top-K Frequent Items	2023	SIGMOD	5.4332155e-05
7,944	Aleph Filter: To Infinity in Constant Time	2024	VLDB	5.4193905e-05
8,587	Conditional Cuckoo Filters	2021	SIGMOD	5.3075325e-05
8,647	Mnemosyne: Dynamic Workload-Aware BF Tuning via Accurate Statistics in LSM trees	2025	SIGMOD	5.2947307e-05
9,059	Adaptive Quotient Filters	2024	SIGMOD	5.2280134e-05
9,655	Sphinx: A Succinct Perfect Hash Index for x86	2025	VLDB	5.142891e-05
10,146	A four-dimensional Analysis of Partitioned Approximate Filters	2021	VLDB	5.071058e-05
10,634	Breadcrumb Filters: Fast Fully Featured Filters	2026	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
10,806	STEM^2: A Fast and Space-efficient Data Structure for Exact Multi-Set Membership Queries	2026	VLDB	4.9769913e-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
14	MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution	2005	CIDR	0.00064013679
27	Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access	1999	VLDB	0.00051576613
82	Hashing Methods and Relational Algebra Operations	1984	VLDB	0.00036042975
258	bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree	2012	SIGMOD	0.00022932099
327	Impala: A Modern, Open-Source SQL Engine for Hadoop	2015	CIDR	0.00020942751
345	R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Distributed Queries	1986	VLDB	0.0002045459
436	Optimizing Space Amplification in RocksDB	2017	CIDR	0.00018312911
627	Rethinking SIMD Vectorization for In-Memory Databases	2015	SIGMOD	0.00015454197
789	Don't Thrash: How to Cache Your Hash on Flash	2012	VLDB	0.00013972179
872	Spectral Bloom Filters	2003	SIGMOD	0.00013338
889	SuRF: Practical Range Query Filtering with Fast Succinct Tries	2018	SIGMOD	0.00013243846
2,011	An Experimental Study of Bitmap Compression vs. Inverted List Compression	2017	SIGMOD	9.1924806e-05
2,073	A General-Purpose Counting Filter: Making Every Bit Count	2017	SIGMOD	9.0833741e-05
2,202	Mega-KV: A Case for GPUs to Maximize the Throughput of In-Memory Key-Value Stores	2015	VLDB	8.8707587e-05
3,547	Approximately Detecting Duplicates for Streaming Data using Stable Bloom Filters	2006	SIGMOD	7.2088273e-05
6,959	2-3 Cuckoo Filters for Faster Triangle Listing and Set Intersection	2017	PODS	5.6314664e-05

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