diff --git a/README b/README index 3c4746d7b67d706aff2ba8c20828ea47fcc9d1af..076f66d74e6900eeec9acf4863ad68ca0f005f29 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Authors: * The Facebook Database Engineering Team This code is a library that forms the core building block for a fast key value server, especially suited for storing data on flash drives. -It has a Log-Structured-Merge-Database (LSM) design with flexible tradeoffs +It has an Log-Structured-Merge-Database (LSM) design with flexible tradeoffs between Write-Amplification-Factor(WAF), Read-Amplification-Factor (RAF) and Space-Amplification-Factor(SAF). It has multi-threaded compactions, making it specially suitable for storing multiple terabytes of data in a