Log Structured Merge Trees

By Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan in databases on

LSMTs are primarily used in databases where the write load is much heavier than the read load. There are 4 primary concepts In-memory memtables and WALSSTables (Sorted String tables) on DiskCompactionBloom FiltersLSMTs based databases are usually based on logs, writes just involve writing to a log in append manner. However…

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It seems almost a lifetime ago that I used to have a blog. Kick starting this blog to have an outlet for my thoughts where the platform for sharing my thoughts is exclusively owned by me. Meet you at the next post!…