Title
Improving LSM-trie performance by parallel search.
Abstract
LSM-trie-based key-value (KV) store is often used to manage an ultralarge dataset in reality by introducing a number of sublevels at each level, its linear growth pattern can fairly reduce the write amplification in store operations. Although this design is effective for the write operation, the last level holds a large proportion of KV items, leading to the extreme imbalance of data distribution. Therefore, to support efficient read, we need to carefully consider this imbalance. On the other hand, to ensure that acquired data is latest, the LSM-trie needs to search the dataset at different levels one by one, and this search method may take a lot of unnecessary time. When the number of items is ultralarge, the random lookup performance may be poor due to the imbalance data distribution. To address this issue, we improve the read performance of the LSM-trie by changing itsserial searchtoparallel search, using two threads to simultaneously search at the last level and other levels, respectively. Our experiment results show that the read performance of the LSM-trie can be improved up to98.35%and on average71.55%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1002/spe.2875
SOFTWARE-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
key-value storage,LSM-tree,parallel search
Journal
50.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10.0
0038-0644
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wen Cheng172.78
Tao Guo238645.64
Lingfang Zeng301.01
Yang Wang44010.41
Lars Nagel57613.58
Tim Süß65010.80
Andre Brinkmann720227.48