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: 8104
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1989
Pagerank: 9.9498415e-05
Overall Rank: 1,711 | 88.27%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. George Copeland (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)
2. Tom Keller (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)
3. Ravi Krishnamurthy (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)
4. Marc Smith (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)

BibTeX Citation

@article{copeland_vldb89,
        title = {{The Case For Safe RAM}},
        author = {Copeland, George and Keller, Tom and Krishnamurthy, Ravi and Smith, Marc},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '89},
        pages = {327},
        year = {1989}
}

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Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

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841	Let’s Talk About Storage & Recovery Methods for Non-Volatile Memory Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	0.00013677356
2,092	Integrating Reliable Memory in Databases	1997	VLDB	9.185168e-05
2,371	REWIND: Recovery Write-Ahead System for In-Memory Non-Volatile Data-Structures	2015	VLDB	8.6793374e-05
3,455	How to Build a Non-Volatile Memory Database Management System	2017	SIGMOD	7.4000022e-05
4,873	Data Management in Non-Volatile Memory	2015	SIGMOD	6.4694503e-05
5,375	A Cost-Effective Method for Providing Improved Data Availability During DBMS Restart Recovery After a Failure	1993	VLDB	6.2416129e-05
5,495	Efficient Main Memory Data Management Using the DBGraph Storage Model	1990	VLDB	6.1987657e-05
5,625	Durable Write Cache in Flash Memory SSD for Relational and NoSQL Databases	2014	SIGMOD	6.1448053e-05
5,685	Performance Evaluation of Extended Storage Architectures for Transaction Processing	1992	SIGMOD	6.1223803e-05
6,985	Disk Mirroring with Alternating Deferred Updates	1993	VLDB	5.7303405e-05
11,415	Anchor: A Library for Building Secure Persistent Memory Systems	2023	SIGMOD	5.093636e-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
7	Implementation Techniques For Main Memory Database Systems	1984	SIGMOD	0.00083340894
336	THE 5 MINUTE RULE FOR TRADING MEMORY FOR DISC ACCESSES and THE 10 BYTE RULE FOR TRADING MEMORY FOR CPU TIME	1987	SIGMOD	0.00020845451

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