Overview
What this challenge is about.
Build an LSM-tree storage engine in Rust with WAL, SSTables, and compaction strategies. Benchmark and analyze performance to earn a verifiable certificate.
CredentialBlockchain-anchored
ShareableLinkedIn-ready
LanguageEnglish
PaceSelf-paced
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Implement a teaching-grade LSM-tree storage engine in Rust with pluggable compaction strategies and benchmark them on YCSB-shaped workloads.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Implement an LSM-tree end-to-end: WAL, memtable, SSTable, compaction
- Reason about write amplification, read amplification, space amplification
- Compare compaction strategies on workload-realistic benchmarks
- Document a research artifact for reproducibility
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
Careers
Roles this prepares you for.
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