#performance

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2025-03-27~2 min
Key design tip: reverse number scanning in ordered key-value stores

A key design trick for ordered key-value stores like HBase, FoundationDB, and RocksDB: reverse a number by subtracting it from its max value so a forward scan finds the highest one first.

2024-04-22~3 min
Redwood’s memory tuning in FoundationDB

Learn how to tune FoundationDB for Redwood storage Engine

2020-02-14~7 min
Contributing to Apache HBase: custom data balancing

In today’s blogpost, we’re going to take a look at our upstream contribution to Apache HBase’s stochastic load balancer, based on our experience of running HBase clusters to support OVHcloud’s monitoring.

2019-11-17~4 min
Diving into Hbase's MemStore

A code-level dive into HBase's MemStore, from the ConcurrentSkipListMap backing HBase 1.x to the in-memory compactions Accordion introduced in HBase 2.0.

2017-10-08~8 min
Engage maximum warp speed in time series analysis with WarpScript

An introduction to WarpScript, the stack-oriented language behind the Warp10 time series platform we ran at OVH's Metrics Data Platform to store and analyze sensor data.