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Storage Engine & Compaction

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The LSM path a write takes — commit log, memtable, then immutable SSTables merged by a compaction strategy. Interviewers ask because choosing STCS, LCS, or TWCS is how you trade write amplification against read latency, and because tombstones are the usual cause of mysterious read timeouts.

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