NoFTL: Database Systems on FTL-less Flash Storage

Summary: NoFTL removes the opaque FTL layer, integrating flash translation and native access into the database to exploit device-level behavior. A Shore-MT prototype with a data-driven emulator achieves up to 3.7× higher TPC performance and a simpler, more predictable I/O stack. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10780
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,269 | 15.83%
DOI: 10.14778/2536274.2536295

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Authors

1. Sergej Hardock (Technical University of Darmstadt)
2. Ilia Petrov (Reutlingen University)
3. Robert Gottstein (Technical University of Darmstadt)
4. Alejandro Buchmann (Technical University of Darmstadt)

BibTeX Citation

@article{hardock_vldb13,
        title = {{NoFTL: Database Systems on FTL-less Flash Storage}},
        author = {Hardock, Sergej and Petrov, Ilia and Gottstein, Robert and Buchmann, Alejandro},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '13},
        volume = {6},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1278--1281},
        doi = {10.14778/2536274.2536295},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2536274.2536295},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
11,977	From In-Place Updates to In-Place Appends: Revisiting Out-of-Place Updates on Flash	2017	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,731	Write-Optimized B-Trees	2004	VLDB	9.9081882e-05
2,661	LazyFTL: A Page-level Flash Translation Layer Optimized for NAND Flash Memory	2011	SIGMOD	8.2842959e-05
5,144	Data Management Over Flash Memory	2011	SIGMOD	6.3473454e-05
7,935	System Co-Design and Data Management for Flash Devices	2011	VLDB	5.5181056e-05

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