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Memtable & SSTable (Sorted String Table) → Read more...
The pattern of batching data up in memory, tracked in a write ahead log, and periodically flushed to disk is ubiquitous today. OSS examples are LevelDB, Cassandra, InfluxDB, or HBase.
In this article I implement a tiny memtable for a timeseries database in golang and briefly talk about how it can be compressed into a sorted string table.