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: 4.4993816e-05
Overall Rank: 8,469 | 41.15%
DOI: -

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3,724	What Modern NVMe Storage Can Do, And How To Exploit It: High-Performance I/O for High-Performance Storage Engines	2023	VLDB	6.8121422e-05

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9	Implementation Techniques For Main Memory Database Systems	1984	SIGMOD	0.001426258
23	A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels	1995	SIGMOD	0.00083899338
521	Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash	2011	CIDR	0.0002114053
1,614	MyRocks: LSM-Tree Database Storage Engine Serving Facebook's Social Graph	2020	VLDB	0.00011137963
1,835	Write-Behind Logging	2017	VLDB	0.00010356306
1,989	Amazon Aurora: On Avoiding Distributed Consensus for I/Os, Commits, and Membership Changes	2018	SIGMOD	9.8499087e-05
2,838	Optimizing Optimistic Concurrency Control for Tree-Structured, Log-Structured Databases	2015	SIGMOD	8.0428751e-05
5,063	Not your Grandpa's SSD: The Era of Co-Designed Storage Devices	2021	SIGMOD	5.7170891e-05
5,758	Open-Channel SSD (What is it Good For)	2020	CIDR	5.3373789e-05
6,357	Dissecting the Performance of Strongly-Consistent Replication Protocols	2019	SIGMOD	5.0921164e-05
7,336	SaS: SSD as SQL Database System	2021	VLDB	4.7533353e-05

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