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Paper Notes: Windows Azure Storage – A Highly Available Cloud Storage Service with Strong Consistency

  • varunu28
  • February 8, 2024
Windows Azure Storage(WAS) is a cloud-based storage system that supports durable storage of customer’s data. The underlying storage infrastructure provides…
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Paper Notes: F1 – A Distributed SQL Database That Scales

  • varunu28
  • October 9, 2023
F1 is a distributed relational database built at Google to support AdWords domain at Google. It is built on top…
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Paper Notes: Spanner – Google’s Globally-Distributed Database

  • varunu28
  • September 27, 2023
Spanner is a scalable & globally distributed database built at Google. It is the first database to replicate data globally…
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Paper Notes: Firestore – The NoSQL Serverless Database for the Application Developer

  • varunu28
  • May 7, 2023
In the world of application development, most of the computation is performed on the edge. Though for certain use cases…
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Paper Notes: Amazon Aurora – Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases

  • varunu28
  • February 26, 2023
Amazon Aurora is an AWS service for relational database. As part of this paper, we will look into the decisions…
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Paper Notes: Bitcask – A Log-Structured Hash Table for Fast Key/Value Data

  • varunu28
  • January 23, 2023
As part of this post, I will cover the research paper for Bitcask and do a code walkthrough of an…
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Paper Notes: Bigtable – A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data

  • varunu28
  • September 6, 2022
Bigtable is a distributed storage solution developed at Google for storing structured data in a scalable manner. Multiple products(At the…
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Paper Notes: Amazon DynamoDB – A Scalable, Predictably Performant, and Fully Managed NoSQL Database Service

  • varunu28
  • July 22, 2022
Sometime back, I wrote a post on Dynamo which is Amazon’s key-value store. This paper is not about that. This…
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Paper Notes: WiscKey – Separating Keys from Values in SSD-conscious Storage

  • varunu28
  • July 13, 2022
During the last post about LSM trees, we discussed how awesome they are for write-heavy storage engines. But we also…
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LSM Tree: Data structure powering write heavy storage engines

  • varunu28
  • July 5, 2022
A database system is built by gluing together multiple pieces of technology. One such piece is a storage engine which…

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