A tree shaped like a B+ tree: a short trunk, a few thick branches and a flat, dense canopy; the leaves grow green on one side, turn amber toward the other and fall into identical crates beside a sundial

Resolver v1: a temporal B+ tree for FoundationDB's conflict history

FoundationDB keeps conflict history for five seconds. Resolver v1 keeps it under a memory budget instead, in a temporal B+ tree whose nodes and key bytes share one pool. Under 6 GiB it retains 2.2× the history of the original skip list, at 2.7× the resolution time; this post explains the design and the measurement.

October 25, 2026 · 9 min · Ricardo Jimenez-Peris