Introduction
A right-optimized write-optimized file system
Summary
The Bε-tree File System, or BetrFS, is an in-kernel file system that uses Bε-trees to organize on-disk storage. Bε-trees are a write-optimized dictionary, and offer the same asymptotic behavior for sequential I/O and point queries as a B-tree. The advantage of a Bε-tree is that it can also ingest small, random writes 1-2 orders of magnitude faster than B-trees and other standard on-disk data structures.
The goal of BetrFS is to realize performance that strictly dominates the performance of current, general-purpose file systems.
Researchers
2020 Interns
External Researchers
- Bradley C. Kuszmaul
- Don Porter
- Jun Yuan
- Martin Farach-Colton
- Michael A. Bender
- William Jannen