NVM: Is it Not Very Meaningful for Databases?

Summary: Comprehensive empirical study of multiple database engines under PMEM AppDirect (persistent) and Memory (volatile) modes using common benchmarks. Finds Memory mode yields no clear performance advantage; AppDirect often speeds queries but I/O path and config caveats limit gains. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13094
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 4.8493186e-05
Overall Rank: 7,040 | 51.08%
DOI: 10.14778/3603581.3603586

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371	Self-Driving Database Management Systems	2017	CIDR	0.00025382677
781	Scalable Logging through Emerging Non-Volatile Memory	2014	VLDB	0.00016667457
809	Persistent B+-Trees in Non-Volatile Main Memory	2015	VLDB	0.00016409797
940	Let’s Talk About Storage & Recovery Methods for Non-Volatile Memory Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	0.00015149366
1,649	Managing Non-Volatile Memory in Database Systems	2018	SIGMOD	0.00011006201
1,823	Dash: Scalable Hashing on Persistent Memory	2020	VLDB	0.00010403355
1,835	Write-Behind Logging	2017	VLDB	0.00010356306
2,634	REWIND: Recovery Write-Ahead System for In-Memory Non-Volatile Data-Structures	2015	VLDB	8.4091408e-05
3,050	Viper: An Efficient Hybrid PMem-DRAM Key-Value Store	2021	VLDB	7.6491863e-05
3,341	Evaluating Persistent Memory Range Indexes	2020	VLDB	7.1984492e-05
3,937	How to Build a Non-Volatile Memory Database Management System	2017	SIGMOD	6.6114468e-05
4,269	Maximizing Persistent Memory Bandwidth Utilization for OLAP Workloads	2021	SIGMOD	6.2950779e-05
4,576	SAP HANA Adoption of Non-Volatile Memory	2017	VLDB	6.0660324e-05
4,816	Spitfire: A Three-Tier Buffer Manager for Volatile and Non-Volatile Memory	2021	SIGMOD	5.897817e-05
5,601	PLIN: A Persistent Learned Index for Non-Volatile Memory with High Performance and Instant Recovery	2023	VLDB	5.4158958e-05
7,074	Zen: a High-Throughput Log-Free OLTP Engine for Non-Volatile Main Memory	2021	VLDB	4.8372993e-05
7,631	Evaluating Persistent Memory Range Indexes: Part Two	2022	VLDB	4.6878629e-05
9,100	PerMA-Bench: Benchmarking Persistent Memory Access	2022	VLDB	4.3916327e-05
9,101	Tair-PMem: A Fully Durable Non-Volatile Memory Database	2022	VLDB	4.3916327e-05

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