Notes on Write Amplification versus Read Perspiration

This was shared by one of the colleagues on Relog server on Discord. The discussion was about how log-structured based databases are not meant to have a 1:1 read per write ratio. There are various ways to tune the data structure to favor one over the other. You can read the original article from here . About Pat, He is one of the top publishers in different subject areas like distributed architecture, database transaction processing, etc. You can find the details of his latest research articles on his ACM profile page https://dl.acm.org/profile/81100628190 . Blockquotes in this post are the notes, I’ve picked from his article. ...

July 8, 2022 · 7 min · Jay Gandhi