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Tag: storage engines

  • October 9, 2026
    The ratio of physical or internal write work to the application's logical write volume.
  • October 9, 2026
    A deletion marker that suppresses older stored or replicated versions until safe physical cleanup.
  • October 9, 2026
    A compaction policy that merges groups of similarly sized sorted components to reduce repeated rewriting.
  • October 9, 2026
    An immutable sorted key-value table used by storage engines such as LSM-based databases.
  • October 9, 2026
    Additional storage or lookup work performed to satisfy a logical application read.
  • October 9, 2026
    An in-memory write buffer that is later flushed into a persistent sorted table.
  • October 9, 2026
    A storage structure that buffers writes and merges sorted on-disk components in the background.
  • October 9, 2026
    An LSM compaction policy that organizes files into levels to reduce overlapping data and read work.
  • October 9, 2026
    Storage maintenance that consolidates data structures and removes obsolete information when safe.
  • October 9, 2026
    A compact membership filter that can prove absence but may return false positives for possible presence.