Cache craftiness for fast multicore key-value storage

We present Masstree, a fast key-value database designed for SMP machines. Masstree keeps all data in memory. Its main data structure is a trie-like concatenation of B+-trees, each of which handles a fixed-length slice of a variable-length key. This structure effectively handles arbitrary-length poss...

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Main Authors: Mao, Yandong (Contributor), Kohler, Eddie (Author), Morris, Robert Tappan (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2012-09-13T16:02:09Z.
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