The Case For Safe RAM

Summary: Safe RAM leverages battery-backed DRAM to offer disk-like reliability at lower cost for systems with reliable updates. It promises faster response and throughput when disk limits apply, and is cost-effective today with caching and power efficiency. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7914
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1989
Pagerank: 0.00011378958
Overall Rank: 1,558 | 89.18%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
940	Let’s Talk About Storage & Recovery Methods for Non-Volatile Memory Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	0.00015149366
1,915	Integrating Reliable Memory in Databases	1997	VLDB	0.00010111449
2,634	REWIND: Recovery Write-Ahead System for In-Memory Non-Volatile Data-Structures	2015	VLDB	8.4091408e-05
3,937	How to Build a Non-Volatile Memory Database Management System	2017	SIGMOD	6.6114468e-05
4,998	A Cost-Effective Method for Providing Improved Data Availability During DBMS Restart Recovery After a Failure	1993	VLDB	5.7647393e-05
5,005	Efficient Main Memory Data Management Using the DBGraph Storage Model	1990	VLDB	5.7599923e-05
5,175	Data Management in Non-Volatile Memory	2015	SIGMOD	5.6391661e-05
5,216	Performance Evaluation of Extended Storage Architectures for Transaction Processing	1992	SIGMOD	5.6227312e-05
5,804	Durable Write Cache in Flash Memory SSD for Relational and NoSQL Databases	2014	SIGMOD	5.3197672e-05
6,034	Disk Mirroring with Alternating Deferred Updates	1993	VLDB	5.2365238e-05
11,216	Anchor: A Library for Building Secure Persistent Memory Systems	2023	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9	Implementation Techniques For Main Memory Database Systems	1984	SIGMOD	0.001426258
214	THE 5 MINUTE RULE FOR TRADING MEMORY FOR DISC ACCESSES and THE 10 BYTE RULE FOR TRADING MEMORY FOR CPU TIME	1987	SIGMOD	0.00033644457

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