Database systems are tuned to meet the unique requirements of their workloads, so how is it that many of the faster growing database systems all use the same underlying data structure? This talk covers what an LSM tree is, how it works and why such a simple primitive is so powerful — particularly when building the next generation of database systems on object storage. Finally we’ll introduce SlateDB, an OSS implementation of an LSM tree that you can use to build data systems of your own.
