Persistent key-value stores are widely used as building blocks in today's IT infrastructure for
managing and storing large amounts of data. However, studies of characterizing real-world …

Key-value stores are a vital component in many scale-out enterprises, including social
networks, online retail, and risk analysis. Accordingly, they are receiving increased attention …

RocksDB is an embedded, high-performance, persistent keyvalue storage engine
developed at Facebook. Much of our current focus in developing and configuring RocksDB …

Database benchmarks are an important tool for database researchers and practitioners that
ease the process of making informed comparisons between different database hardware …

Facebook uses MySQL to manage tens of petabytes of data in its main database named the
User Database (UDB). UDB serves social activities such as likes, comments, and shares. In …

This article is an eight-year retrospective on development priorities for RocksDB, a key-value
store developed at Facebook that targets large-scale distributed systems and that is …

We present FlashStore, a high throughput persistent key-value store, that uses flash memory
as a non-volatile cache between RAM and hard disk. FlashStore is designed to store the …

We introduce a simple data model and API tailored for serving the social graph, and TAO, an
implementation of this model. TAO is a geographically distributed data store that provides …

Social networks, online communities, mobile devices, and instant messaging applications
generate complex, unstructured data at a high rate, resulting in large volumes of data. This …

Popular SSD-based key-value stores consume a large amount of DRAM in order to provide
high-performance database operations. However, DRAM can be expensive for data center …