Databases & Storage
Database Indexing - B-Trees, LSM Trees, and Beyond
Database indexes accelerate data retrieval by creating sorted lookups on specific columns, but introduce write performance overhead. Choosing the right indexing strategy, such as B-trees or LSM trees, depends on the read/write workload characteristics of the application.
B-treeLSM treeSSTableMemtableBloom filterIndex cardinalityComposite indexRead amplificationWrite amplificationDatabase locking
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