bLSM: a general purpose log structured merge tree

Data management workloads are increasingly write-intensive and subject to strict latency SLAs. This presents a dilemma: Update in place systems have unmatched latency but poor write throughput. In contrast, existing log structured techniques improve write throughput but sacrifice read performance and exhibit unacceptable latency spikes.

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