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![BenjDicken Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::1761964147510767616.png) Ben Dicken [@BenjDicken](/creator/twitter/BenjDicken) on x 9890 followers
Created: 2025-06-24 16:47:12 UTC

Today I'm reading the original log-structured merge-tree paper.

LSM trees were designed to reduce IO cost for high-volume, write-heavy database workloads.

This came out in 1996, and today it's widely used by databases like DynamoDB, ClickHouse and Google Bigtable.

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