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Log-Structured Storage: LSM Trees and SSTables

LSM Trees flip traditional database storage on its head - instead of updating data in place, they just append everything to a log and sort it later, which makes writes incredibly fast.

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Log-Structured Storage: LSM Trees and SSTables - System Design Diagram

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