A Log-Structured Hash Table for Fast Key/Value Data

April 27, 2010

The origin of Bitcask is tied to the history of the Riak distributed database. In a Riak key/value cluster, each node uses pluggable local storage; nearly anything k/v-shaped can be used as the per-host storage engine. This pluggability allowed progress on Riak to be parallelized such that storage engines could be improved and tested without impact on the rest of the codebase.

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