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Presented the LSM-tree as a disk-oriented indexing structure that batches and merges updates across components to reduce insertion cost for high-update workloads.
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The record is the exact four-author 1996 Acta Informatica paper. It does not absorb log-structured file systems, later leveled or tiered compaction variants, NoSQL databases or every write-optimized index.
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Patrick E. O'Neil; Edward Cheng; Dieter Gawlick; Elizabeth J. O'Neil
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O’Neil, Cheng, Gawlick and O’Neil: the log-structured merge-tree
Presented the LSM-tree as a disk-oriented indexing structure that batches and merges updates across components to reduce insertion cost for high-update workloads.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact four-author 1996 Acta Informatica paper. It does not absorb log-structured file systems, later leveled or tiered compaction variants, NoSQL databases or every write-optimized index.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Patrick E. O'Neil; Edward Cheng; Dieter Gawlick; Elizabeth J. O'Neil
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.