turbofish-org / merk

High-performance Merkle key/value store
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Separate nodes and data #35

Open mappum opened 4 years ago

mappum commented 4 years ago

Keeping the node metadata and their values in separate column families may be a significant performance boost. It would require much less data to be read and written when updating intermediate nodes where disk/memory throughput is the main bottleneck.