Avoiding Read Stalls on Flash Storage

Summary: Proposes write-after-read (WAR) between the buffer manager and flash to eliminate read stalls caused by RAW on flash. Uses a DRAM tail to copy dirty pages, reads missing pages into cleaned frames without stalls, and flushes asynchronously; shows up to 2.9x throughput in InnoDB and Zero. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6502
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 5.378796e-05
Overall Rank: 8,710 | 40.25%
DOI: 10.1145/3514221.3526126

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Authors

1. Mijin An (Sungkyunkwan University)
2. In-Yeong Song (Hanyang University)
3. Yong-Ho Song (Hanyang University; Samsung)
4. Sang-Won Lee (Sungkyunkwan University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{an_sigmod22,
        title = {{Avoiding Read Stalls on Flash Storage}},
        author = {An, Mijin and Song, In-Yeong and Song, Yong-Ho and Lee, Sang-Won},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '22},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3514221.3526126},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3514221.3526126},
        year = {2022}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,498	LeanStore: A High-Performance Storage Engine for NVMe SSDs	2024	VLDB	5.861854e-05
7,261	LRU-C: Parallelizing Database I/Os for Flash SSDs	2023	VLDB	5.6612613e-05
9,256	FlashAlloc: Dedicating Flash Blocks By Objects	2023	VLDB	5.2973814e-05
9,409	NV-SQL: Boosting OLTP Performance with Non-Volatile DIMMs	2023	VLDB	5.2750967e-05
10,543	How to Write to SSDs	2026	VLDB	5.093636e-05
10,659	Boosting OLTP Performance with Per-Page Logging on NVDIMM	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,770	Moving on From Group Commit: Autonomous Commit Enables High Throughput and Low Latency on NVMe SSDs	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
86	Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning	2017	SIGMOD	0.00035316107
232	LinkBench: a Database Benchmark Based on the Facebook Social Graph	2013	SIGMOD	0.00023830978
523	Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2	2006	VLDB	0.00017133451
625	Automatic Performance Diagnosis and Tuning in Oracle	2005	CIDR	0.0001566968
914	A Modeling Study of the TPC-C Benchmark	1993	SIGMOD	0.00013246456
2,558	The Oracle Universal Server Buffer Manager	1997	VLDB	8.41572e-05
3,089	Improving Flash Write Performance by Using Update Frequency	2013	VLDB	7.7686638e-05
3,837	Database Buffer Size Investigation for OLTP Workloads	1997	SIGMOD	7.0826614e-05
5,165	Advances in Flash Memory SSD Technology for Enterprise Database Applications	2009	SIGMOD	6.3371139e-05
5,625	Durable Write Cache in Flash Memory SSD for Relational and NoSQL Databases	2014	SIGMOD	6.1448053e-05

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