Log Structured Merge Trees - ben stopfordIt’s nearly a decade since Google released its ‘Big Table’ paper. One of the many cool aspects of that paper was the file organisation it uses. The approach is more generally known as the Log Structured Merge Tree, after this 1996 paper, although the algorithm described there differs quite significantly from most real-world implementations. LSM is now used in a number of products as the main file
Write Optimization: Myths, Comparison, Clarifications, Part 2
