ajhconway

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   by ajhconway 4y ago

   What it comes down to is performance. You can use a relational database such as SQLite for a low-level key-value store, such as RocksDB or SplinterDB, but then you pay for the higher-level semantics with lower performance.
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   by ajhconway 4y ago

   With many workloads, there's a tradeoff between the granularity of durability and the overall performance. If a workload has many small writes (some of our product workloads do), then syncing each write can cause write amplification an
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   by ajhconway 4y ago

   Hi, research lead for SplinterDB here. SplinterDB does make all writes durable and in fact has its own user-level cache which generally performs writes directly to disk (using O_DIRECT for example). Like RocksDB's default behavior (no