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  • SSTable on SSD

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    When I first put the SSTable server on Google’s Compute Engine, I opted for the cheapest machine: an e2-small (2 cores and 2GB ram) with a standard persistent disk of 20 GiB. When I ran the server, each request was taking hundreds of milliseconds. Installed iotop and found I was getting at most 8 MiB/s…

  • Building an SSTable

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    SSTables are a critical piece of technology that holds up the modern web. It’s the basis for most modern databases, search backends and many other technologies. What it provides is a reasonably fast way to perform lookups in large datasets. SSTables are sorted string tables meaning both our lookup keys and the resulting values are…