Append is Near: Log-based Data Management on ZNS SSDs

Summary: Introduces ZNS Zone Append and a Group Append enabling host-controlled sequential zones and sub-block appends to cut write amplification, wear, log stacking, and GC on SSDs. Discusses impacts on LSMs, DBMSs and shared logs, and sketches research avenues. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 470
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 5.3962263e-05
Overall Rank: 8,633 | 40.78%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Devashish R. Purandare (University of California Santa Cruz)
2. Peter Wilcox (University of California Santa Cruz)
3. Heiner Litz (University of California Santa Cruz)
4. Shel Finkelstein (University of California Santa Cruz)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{purandare_cidr22,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '22},
        title = {{Append is Near: Log-based Data Management on ZNS SSDs}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Purandare, Devashish R. and Wilcox, Peter and Litz, Heiner and Finkelstein, Shel},
        year = {2022}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,001	What Modern NVMe Storage Can Do, And How To Exploit It: High-Performance I/O for High-Performance Storage Engines	2023	VLDB	7.8673493e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7	Implementation Techniques For Main Memory Database Systems	1984	SIGMOD	0.00083340894
19	A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels	1995	SIGMOD	0.00058720861
379	Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash	2011	CIDR	0.00019611067
1,213	MyRocks: LSM-Tree Database Storage Engine Serving Facebook's Social Graph	2020	VLDB	0.00011646797
1,463	Amazon Aurora: On Avoiding Distributed Consensus for I/Os, Commits, and Membership Changes	2018	SIGMOD	0.00010700936
1,480	Write-Behind Logging	2017	VLDB	0.00010649376
2,906	Optimizing Optimistic Concurrency Control for Tree-Structured, Log-Structured Databases	2015	SIGMOD	7.9741374e-05
4,557	Not your Grandpa's SSD: The Era of Co-Designed Storage Devices	2021	SIGMOD	6.6333658e-05
5,379	Open-Channel SSD (What is it Good For)	2020	CIDR	6.2398494e-05
6,296	Dissecting the Performance of Strongly-Consistent Replication Protocols	2019	SIGMOD	5.922816e-05
7,135	SaS: SSD as SQL Database System	2021	VLDB	5.6940523e-05

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