Help : Memtable about ddb

[danchia]

The memtable is indeed a lock free skiplist, and it only supports inserts.
Updates and deletes are achieved by inserting a new entry with the same key, but a fresher timestamp.

[devsohi]

@danchia Thanks for quick response . Just beginners doubt . (sorry for more questions)

1. If memtable is lock free, then what is use mu.Lock as first statement in Insert function.
   Here
   Would not this lock entire method and insertion will become sequential for that memtable ?

[danchia]

Good questions - it's actually only lock-free on reading, not insertion.
For very write-heavy workloads this may pose a problem, but I'm waiting for that to happen before worrying :)

[devsohi]

Cool. Looking forward to lock free implementation for write heavy workloads . (also more tutorials on ddb :-) )