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Nova-LSM: A Distributed, Component-based LSM-tree Key-value Store
Summary: Nova-LSM is a distributed, component-based LSM-tree KV store (LTC, LogC, StoC) using RDMA to decouple storage from processing and scale components independently. It enables range-based partitioning and flexible SSTable placement across StoCs, with replication/parity for availability and durability, delivering elastic performance beyond LevelDB/RocksDB on skewed workloads.
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Paper ID
hf574983a70bfd851
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2021
Pagerank
7.1439198e-05
Overall Rank
3,641 | 75.53%
DOI
10.1145/3448016.3457297
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@inproceedings{huang_sigmod21,
title = {{Nova-LSM: A Distributed, Component-based LSM-tree Key-value Store}},
author = {Huang, Haoyu and Ghandeharizadeh, Shahram},
series = {{SIGMOD} '21},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3448016.3457297},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3457297},
year = {2021}
}
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