Abstract: The efficiency of a container location database (“CLDB”) that is used for retrieving location information of data containers stored on nodes in a cluster is improved by decreasing the number of key-value store transactions performed during snapshot creation and deletion, thereby decreasing both disk I/O and computing cycles. The CLDB is made more scalable by improving the deletion and creation time of snapshots, allowing one to create and delete more snapshots during a given interval of time. CLDB resilience is improved by decreasing the time required to resync a CLDB node. CLDB data is reduced to decrease IO operations, improve resync times, and to cache most of the data in memory.