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Topical Edition on Databases

Amethyst: Adaptive Compaction for LSM Trees via Segment-Level Policy Selection

Session Description Modern LSM-tree storage engines typically force a global choice between tiered and leveled compaction. Tiered compaction offers excellent write throughput but can suffer from read amplification, while leveled compaction improves read performance at the cost of additional write amplification. Existing systems generally apply one strategy across the entire database, implicitly a… more
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  • 09 Jun 2026
Session type - select the format for your session: 15-minute talk – focused engineering experience