Toward a Better Understanding and Evaluation of Tree Structures on Flash SSDs
Summary: Identifies seven benchmarking pitfalls in evaluating tree structures on SSDs, showing how software–firmware interactions skew RocksDB/WiredTiger performance. Provides guidelines for reproducibility and fair comparisons across tree/storage configurations. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Diego Didona
- 2. Nikolas Ioannou
- 3. Radu Stoica
- 4. Kornilios Kourtis
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,965 | Spooky: Granulating LSM-Tree Compactions Correctly | 2022 | VLDB | 6.5820028e-05 |
| 7,257 | CAVE: Concurrency-Aware Graph Processing on SSDs | 2024 | SIGMOD | 4.786584e-05 |
| 9,191 | FlashAlloc: Dedicating Flash Blocks By Objects | 2023 | VLDB | 4.3766529e-05 |
| 10,255 | How to Write to SSDs | 2026 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 10 of 10 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87 | Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine | 2013 | SIGMOD | 0.00052389723 |
| 359 | Self-Driving Database Management Systems | 2017 | CIDR | 0.0002592783 |
| 379 | bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.0002493527 |
| 1,311 | Dostoevsky: Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores via Adaptive Removal of Superfluous Merging | 2018 | SIGMOD | 0.00012657439 |
| 1,366 | SlimDB: A Space-Efficient Key-Value Storage Engine For Semi-Sorted Data | 2017 | VLDB | 0.00012357685 |
| 2,109 | The Log-Structured Merge-Bush & the Wacky Continuum | 2019 | SIGMOD | 9.5318694e-05 |
| 2,394 | Building a Bw-Tree Takes More Than Just Buzz Words | 2018 | SIGMOD | 8.9001843e-05 |
| 3,362 | Improving Flash Write Performance by Using Update Frequency | 2013 | VLDB | 7.1734963e-05 |
| 3,564 | Accordion: Better Memory Organization for LSM Key-Value Stores | 2018 | VLDB | 6.9669032e-05 |
| 4,914 | On Performance Stability in LSM-based Storage Systems | 2020 | VLDB | 5.8315684e-05 |
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| 819 | Persistent B+-Trees in Non-Volatile Main Memory | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00016298164 |
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