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Single-Machine Key-Value Store with Filesystem Spill
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Design a single-machine KV store that holds a billion keys and MB-scale values. Memory is bounded; on-disk format is append-only files; values cannot live entirely in memory. The round straddles syste...
SWE
Infra Eng
storage
in-memory-database
filesystem
memory-bounded
persistence
data-structure
medium
Frequency
Low
Last asked
2025-12-24
Stage
onsite-system-design
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