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USDB: Scaling Storage for Next-Generation Recommender Systems at ByteDance

Hacker News | Nov 3, 2026 | 1equalsequals1

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Abstract:Recommendation models consume increasingly long, attribute-rich user histories, making small continuous updates and repeated large reads a central storage asymmetry. These designs reuse maintenance results across ingestion, inference, and training. Controlled comparisons with an Optimized RocksDB sequence baseline show faster long-history reads across projections and client loads.

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