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Cassandra Internals: LSM-Trees, Gossip, and Eventual Consistency

Cassandra Internals: Built for Scale Apache Cassandra is a peer-to-peer distributed database designed to handle massive amounts of data across many commodity servers. Its "Masterless" architecture and high write throughp…

Apr 20, 20262 min read

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LSM-Tree Compaction Strategies: Leveled vs. Size-Tiered

LSM-Tree Compaction Strategies LSM-tree based databases (Cassandra, RocksDB, ScyllaDB) don't update data in place. They write immutable SSTables. Over time, these files must be merged to reclaim space and improve reads.…

Apr 20, 20262 min read

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B-Trees vs. LSM-Trees: The Battle of Storage Engine Internals

B-Trees vs. LSM-Trees: Choosing Your Storage Engine At the heart of every database is a storage engine that decides how data is laid out on disk. The two most dominant architectures are B-Trees and LSM-Trees. Understandi…

Apr 20, 20262 min read

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System Design: Designing a Local-First Key-Value Store (LevelDB/RocksDB)

System Design: Designing a Local-First Key-Value Store While distributed systems get all the glory, the foundation of every database is an efficient local storage engine. Whether it's LevelDB (Google), RocksDB (Meta), or…

Apr 20, 20262 min read

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