Databases & Storage
Log-Structured Storage: LSM Trees and SSTables
LSM Trees flip traditional database storage on its head - instead of updating data in place, they just append everything to a log and sort it later, which makes writes incredibly fast.
LSM TreeSSTableMemTableWrite AmplificationRead AmplificationCompactionBloom FilterLevelDBRocksDBCassandra
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Log-Structured Storage: LSM Trees and SSTables - System Design Diagram
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