Pith Number

pith:QVHLNPKI

pith:2019:QVHLNPKINQN4HVCVEFDUAIM77C

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In Search of a Key Value Store with High Performance and High Availability

Bin Li, Huaibing Jian, Shu Wang, Xiliang Wu, Yongchao Long, Yuean Zhu, Zhichu Zhong

arxiv:1904.08147 v1 · 2019-04-17 · cs.DB

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QVHLNPKINQN4HVCVEFDUAIM77C}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-17T23:48:18.622742Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

854eb6bd486c1bc3d455214740219ff8abf4559d690f5593c7fbba92ed7de2f6

Aliases

arxiv: 1904.08147 · arxiv_version: 1904.08147v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1904.08147 · pith_short_12: QVHLNPKINQN4 · pith_short_16: QVHLNPKINQN4HVCV · pith_short_8: QVHLNPKI

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QVHLNPKINQN4HVCVEFDUAIM77C \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 854eb6bd486c1bc3d455214740219ff8abf4559d690f5593c7fbba92ed7de2f6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b85c8113ac5303e4229f5387ab224222cf3138f35526aeeed7a974d7b6d16689",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2019-04-17T09:15:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c92f4055fa03a451676ac72b8cd9568ae37d235b91055440acb6c95b093ce52d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1904.08147",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}