It Takes Two: Instrumenting the Interaction between In-Memory Databases and Solid-State Drives

Summary: Demonstrates that SSDs can provide per-IO-request performance profiles by extending Cosmos+ OpenSSD firmware to track request-level metrics. Uses this SSD-side instrumentation to explain obscure interactions between transaction log and checkpoint workloads, advocating SSD/DB co-design. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 353
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 5.4574671e-05
Overall Rank: 8,262 | 43.32%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Alberto Lerner (University of Freiburg)
2. Jaewook Kwak (Hanyang University)
3. Sangjin Lee (Hanyang University)
4. Kibin Park (Hanyang University)
5. Yong Ho Song (Hanyang University; Samsung)
6. Philippe Cudré-Mauroux (University of Freiburg)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{lerner_cidr20,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '20},
        title = {{It Takes Two: Instrumenting the Interaction between In-Memory Databases and Solid-State Drives}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Lerner, Alberto and Kwak, Jaewook and Lee, Sangjin and Park, Kibin and Song, Yong Ho and Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe},
        year = {2020}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,557	Not your Grandpa's SSD: The Era of Co-Designed Storage Devices	2021	SIGMOD	6.6333658e-05
6,198	Database Kernels: Seamless Integration of Database Systems and Fast Storage via CXL	2024	CIDR	5.945932e-05
6,776	X-SSD: A Storage System with Native Support for Database Logging and Replication	2022	SIGMOD	5.777467e-05
10,974	SSD-iq: Uncovering the Hidden Side of SSD Performance	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,014	Aether: A Scalable Approach to Logging	2010	VLDB	0.00012650747
1,130	Query Processing on Smart SSDs: Opportunities and Challenges	2013	SIGMOD	0.00012052236
1,255	Fast Checkpoint Recovery Algorithms for Frequently Consistent Applications	2011	SIGMOD	0.00011472627
1,311	uFLIP: Understanding Flash IO Patterns	2009	CIDR	0.00011207712
1,704	YourSQL: A High-Performance Database System Leveraging In-Storage Computing	2016	VLDB	9.9631993e-05
1,773	Ibex—An Intelligent Storage Engine with Support for Advanced SQL Off-loading	2014	VLDB	9.7895875e-05
2,388	Low-Overhead Asynchronous Checkpointing in Main-Memory Database Systems	2016	SIGMOD	8.6474765e-05
3,089	Improving Flash Write Performance by Using Update Frequency	2013	VLDB	7.7686638e-05
4,862	Caribou: Intelligent Distributed Storage	2017	VLDB	6.4741258e-05
7,422	Flash Device Support for Database Management	2011	CIDR	5.6218908e-05
7,973	Concurrent Prefix Recovery: Performing CPR on a Database	2019	SIGMOD	5.5157734e-05

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