FlashStore: High Throughput Persistent Key-Value Store

Summary: FlashStore uses flash as a nonvolatile working-set cache between RAM and disk, combining log-structured sequential writes, one-read lookups, and signature-based cuckoo hashing. Trace evaluations show up to 60× throughput, 50× energy, and 85× cost-efficiency gains over BerkeleyDB. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h0ce153f46cab21ef
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 0.00012757454
Overall Rank: 974 | 93.46%
DOI: 10.14778/1920841.1920859

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Authors

1. Biplob Debnath (University of Minnesota)
2. Sudipta Sengupta (Microsoft)
3. Jin Li (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@article{debnath_vldb10,
        title = {{FlashStore: High Throughput Persistent Key-Value Store}},
        author = {Debnath, Biplob and Sengupta, Sudipta and Li, Jin},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '10},
        volume = {3},
        number = {2},
        pages = {1414--1425},
        doi = {10.14778/1920841.1920859},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1920859},
        year = {2010}
}

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236	LinkBench: a Database Benchmark Based on the Facebook Social Graph	2013	SIGMOD	0.00023671522
754	Dostoevsky: Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores via Adaptive Removal of Superfluous Merging	2018	SIGMOD	0.00014236015
816	SlimDB: A Space-Efficient Key-Value Storage Engine For Semi-Sorted Data	2017	VLDB	0.00013687311
1,422	The Log-Structured Merge-Bush & the Wacky Continuum	2019	SIGMOD	0.00010725538
1,665	SkimpyStash: RAM Space Skimpy Key-Value Store on Flash-based Storage	2011	SIGMOD	9.9384098e-05
2,369	BlueCache: A Scalable Distributed Flash-based Key-value Store	2017	VLDB	8.5618147e-05
2,909	Deuteronomy: Transaction Support for Cloud Data	2011	CIDR	7.8721738e-05
4,167	Spitfire: A Three-Tier Buffer Manager for Volatile and Non-Volatile Memory	2021	SIGMOD	6.7656035e-05
5,032	Put an Elephant into a Fridge: Optimizing Cache Efficiency for In-memory Key-value Stores	2020	VLDB	6.3053972e-05
5,081	InfiniFilter: Expanding Filters to Infinity and Beyond	2023	SIGMOD	6.2854372e-05
5,177	Hybrid Storage Management for Database Systems	2013	VLDB	6.2412137e-05
5,251	Data Management Over Flash Memory	2011	SIGMOD	6.2090582e-05
6,072	Halo: A Hybrid PMem-DRAM Persistent Hash Index with Fast Recovery	2022	SIGMOD	5.8954394e-05
6,399	Catalyst: Optimizing Cache Management for Large In-memory Key-value Systems	2023	VLDB	5.798136e-05
7,349	TimeUnion: An Efficient Architecture with Unified Data Model for Timeseries Management Systems on Hybrid Cloud Storage	2022	SIGMOD	5.545453e-05
7,940	Aleph Filter: To Infinity in Constant Time	2024	VLDB	5.4219572e-05
8,103	System Co-Design and Data Management for Flash Devices	2011	VLDB	5.3942942e-05
9,627	SHIELD: Encrypting Persistent Data of LSM-KVS from Monolithic to Disaggregated Storage	2025	SIGMOD	5.1482651e-05
9,647	Sphinx: A Succinct Perfect Hash Index for x86	2025	VLDB	5.1453267e-05
9,662	The End of Moore’s Law and the Rise of The Data Processor	2021	VLDB	5.1453267e-05
10,518	Zeno Filter: To Infinity in Tiny Steps	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,191	Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Write-Back Policy with Cache Augmented Data Stores	2019	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,410	Purity: Building Fast, Highly-Available Enterprise Flash Storage from Commodity Components	2015	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,014	Flashing Up the Storage Layer	2008	VLDB	0.00012505292
1,125	FlashLogging: Exploiting Flash Devices for Synchronous Logging Performance	2009	SIGMOD	0.00011926907
1,460	Online Maintenance of Very Large Random Samples on Flash Storage	2008	VLDB	0.0001058438

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