https://www.infoq.com InfoQ NewSQL News feed https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/10/airbnb-nextgen-kv-storage-mussel/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=NewSQL-news <img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2025/10/airbnb-nextgen-kv-storage-mussel/en/headerimage/twitter_card-1760821474154.jpg"/><p>Airbnb’s engineering team re-architected its internal key-value storage system, Mussel, to unify streaming and bulk ingestion while simplifying operations, achieving over 100,000 writes per second and sub-25ms read latencies on 100-terabyte tables, while leveraging Kubernetes, Kafka, and a NewSQL backend to improve scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency across its internal services.</p> <i>By Leela Kumili</i> S3 Database Kubernetes Apache Kafka Key-Value Store NewSQL migration Storage Streaming Apache Airflow Infrastructure Distributed Systems Architecture & Design news Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:00:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/10/airbnb-nextgen-kv-storage-mussel/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=NewSQL-news Leela Kumili 2025-10-24T14:00:00Z /news/2025/10/airbnb-nextgen-kv-storage-mussel/en