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Sep 24, 2024 · Databases

Why Modern Databases Prefer LSM Trees Over B‑Trees: Hardware, Workloads, and More

Modern databases have largely shifted from B‑tree based storage to LSM‑tree engines due to SSD hardware characteristics, high‑write workloads, concurrency advantages, simpler implementation, and evolving application demands, with additional insights into Paxos/Raft consensus, common database jargon, and performance optimizations.