How to Build a Non-Volatile Memory Database Management System

Summary: NVM's DRAM-like speed and byte-addressability upend classic DBMS architecture, altering persistence and performance assumptions. Tutorial and survey of design implications, lessons from prior NVM DB research, and open problems for NVM-aware DBMS. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5400
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 7.4000022e-05
Overall Rank: 3,455 | 76.30%
DOI: 10.1145/3035918.3054780

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Authors

1. Joy Arulraj (Carnegie Mellon University)
2. Andrew Pavlo (Carnegie Mellon University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{arulraj_sigmod17,
        title = {{How to Build a Non-Volatile Memory Database Management System}},
        author = {Arulraj, Joy and Pavlo, Andrew},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '17},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3035918.3054780},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3035918.3054780},
        year = {2017}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,343	Understanding the Effect of Data Center Resource Disaggregation on Production DBMSs	2020	VLDB	8.7213493e-05
3,196	Farview: Disaggregated Memory with Operator Off-loading for Database Engines	2022	CIDR	7.6467469e-05
6,105	Optimizing In-memory Database Engine for AI-powered On-line Decision Augmentation Using Persistent Memory	2021	VLDB	5.9743349e-05
6,679	Revisiting the Design of LSM-tree Based OLTP Storage Engine with Persistent Memory	2021	VLDB	5.8050516e-05
7,046	NVM: Is it Not Very Meaningful for Databases?	2023	VLDB	5.7185159e-05
8,579	Cost Modelling for Optimal Data Placement in Heterogeneous Main Memory	2022	VLDB	5.4087323e-05
8,931	DimmStore: Memory Power Optimization for Database Systems	2019	VLDB	5.3483178e-05
8,963	The Past, Present and Future of Indexing on Persistent Memory	2022	VLDB	5.3435901e-05
10,011	Sage: Parallel Semi-Asymmetric Graph Algorithms for NVRAMs	2020	VLDB	5.1772034e-05
11,763	Rethinking Message Brokers on RDMA and NVM	2020	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 20 of 20 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
29	Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access	1999	VLDB	0.00052093615
38	Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine	2013	SIGMOD	0.00047648573
49	Weaving Relations for Cache Performance	2001	VLDB	0.00043781096
164	The Dangers of Replication and a Solution	1996	SIGMOD	0.00027698879
234	Self-Driving Database Management Systems	2017	CIDR	0.00023810722
491	FPTree: A Hybrid SCM-DRAM Persistent and Concurrent B-Tree for Storage Class Memory	2016	SIGMOD	0.00017575163
603	Scalable Logging through Emerging Non-Volatile Memory	2014	VLDB	0.00015853456
621	Persistent B+-Trees in Non-Volatile Main Memory	2015	VLDB	0.00015695264
630	Performance Tradeoffs in Read-Optimized Databases	2006	VLDB	0.00015591796
658	Rethinking Database Algorithms for Phase Change Memory	2011	CIDR	0.0001523554
720	Anti-Caching: A New Approach to Database Management System Architecture	2013	VLDB	0.00014632914
840	Storage Management in the NVRAM Era	2014	VLDB	0.00013683877
841	Let’s Talk About Storage & Recovery Methods for Non-Volatile Memory Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	0.00013677356
1,480	Write-Behind Logging	2017	VLDB	0.00010649376
1,524	Trekking Through Siberia: Managing Cold Data in a Memory-Optimized Database	2014	VLDB	0.00010501517
1,711	The Case For Safe RAM	1989	VLDB	9.9498415e-05
1,996	Write-limited sorts and joins for persistent memory	2014	VLDB	9.3396464e-05
2,338	NVRAM-aware Logging in Transaction Systems	2015	VLDB	8.7254375e-05
2,371	REWIND: Recovery Write-Ahead System for In-Memory Non-Volatile Data-Structures	2015	VLDB	8.6793374e-05
4,873	Data Management in Non-Volatile Memory	2015	SIGMOD	6.4694503e-05

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