Updates: HIndex project has been renamed to DELI and will be migrated to new repository: [here].
"Deferred Lightweight Indexing for Log-Structured Key-Value Stores", Yuzhe Tang, Arun Iyengar, Wei Tan, Liana Fong, Ling Liu, in Proceedings of the 15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2015), Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, May 2015, [pdf]