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: 471
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 4.5031181e-05
Overall Rank: 8,473 | 41.06%
DOI: -

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3,736	What Modern NVMe Storage Can Do, And How To Exploit It: High-Performance I/O for High-Performance Storage Engines	2023	VLDB	6.8057888e-05

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9	Implementation Techniques For Main Memory Database Systems	1984	SIGMOD	0.0014279444
23	A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels	1995	SIGMOD	0.00083894938
521	Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash	2011	CIDR	0.00021139547
1,610	MyRocks: LSM-Tree Database Storage Engine Serving Facebook's Social Graph	2020	VLDB	0.00011148094
1,842	Write-Behind Logging	2017	VLDB	0.00010345337
1,984	Amazon Aurora: On Avoiding Distributed Consensus for I/Os, Commits, and Membership Changes	2018	SIGMOD	9.8607096e-05
2,833	Optimizing Optimistic Concurrency Control for Tree-Structured, Log-Structured Databases	2015	SIGMOD	8.0460396e-05
5,067	Not your Grandpa's SSD: The Era of Co-Designed Storage Devices	2021	SIGMOD	5.7215985e-05
5,750	Open-Channel SSD (What is it Good For)	2020	CIDR	5.3415191e-05
6,358	Dissecting the Performance of Strongly-Consistent Replication Protocols	2019	SIGMOD	5.0969837e-05
7,340	SaS: SSD as SQL Database System	2021	VLDB	4.757874e-05

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