Notes on Write Amplification versus Read Perspiration

This was shared by one of the colleagues on Relog server on Discord. The discussion was about how log-structured based databases are not meant to have a 1:1 read per write ratio. There are various ways to tune the data structure to favor one over the other. You can read the original article from here . About Pat, He is one of the top publishers in different subject areas like distributed architecture, database transaction processing, etc....

July 8, 2022