Using Write-Once Memory for Database Storage

Summary: Repurpose laser-written write-once optical disks as cheap, large random-access read-mostly storage for databases by appending updated records to new locations instead of in-place rewrites. Analyzes address-space and rewrite limits, optical-device properties, presents mechanisms (e.g., DRAW), capacity/performance estimates and design tradeoffs for using WOS as RMS. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 632
Venue: PODS
Year: 1982
Pagerank: 7.1761336e-05
Overall Rank: 3,716 | 74.51%
DOI: 10.1145/588111.588151

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. David Maier (State University of New York at Stony Brook)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{maier_pods82,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '82},
        title = {{Using Write-Once Memory for Database Storage}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/588111.588151},
        doi = {10.1145/588111.588151},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Maier, David},
        year = {1982}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,486	Performance Analysis and Fundamental Performance Trade Offs for CLV Optical Disks	1988	SIGMOD	6.2007069e-05
8,628	Retrieval Performance Versus Disc Space Utilization on WORM Optical Discs	1989	SIGMOD	5.3968286e-05
13,214	Issues in the Architecture of a Document Archiver using Optical Disk Technology	1985	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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