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X-Engine

X-Engine Storage Engine: Putting LSM-Tree into NVM – Part 1

This article introduces X-Engine storage engine developed for PolarDB and discusses its benefits when applied with NVM.

X-Engine Storage Engine: Putting LSM-Tree into NVM – Part 2

In this article, we evaluate the performance the X-Engine storage engine and discuss its benefits when applied with NVM.

Storing Massive Image Metadata of Tmall and Taobao

This article explores how the Alibaba database kernel team achieved high performance while maintaining a low cost.

Real-Time Historical Database Solution Based on X-Engine

This article discusses what X-Engine is and how it works compared to other high-compression storage engines and historical database architecture.

Optimizing X-Engine's In-memory Read Performance

This blog discusses 3 optimization methods to improve the in-memory performance of X-engine and weighs in on the benefits of each optimization method.

Alibaba X-Engine Empowers Fast DDL Operations

This article describes how MySQL (with X-Engine) completes quasi-instant DDL operations, which may take several hours to complete by traditional databases.

New Insights into X-Engine: The New Storage Engine of RDS for MySQL

This article discusses what makes X-Engine, an Alibaba proprietary database storage engine, a great choice for RDS for MySQL.

Ingenuity | A New Triumph for X-Engine

This article introduces a new project called 'FPGA-Accelerated Compactions for LSM-based Key-Value Store' from the X-Engine team.