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: h237013becd05dd3a
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 5.2452058e-05
Overall Rank: 8,876 | 40.51%
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
5,225	LeanStore: A High-Performance Storage Engine for NVMe SSDs	2024	VLDB	6.2100105e-05
7,393	LRU-C: Parallelizing Database I/Os for Flash SSDs	2023	VLDB	5.5202899e-05
9,467	FlashAlloc: Dedicating Flash Blocks By Objects	2023	VLDB	5.1589556e-05
9,624	NV-SQL: Boosting OLTP Performance with Non-Volatile DIMMs	2023	VLDB	5.1372533e-05
10,796	How to Write to SSDs	2026	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
11,172	Boosting OLTP Performance with Per-Page Logging on NVDIMM	2025	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
11,258	Moving on From Group Commit: Autonomous Commit Enables High Throughput and Low Latency on NVMe SSDs	2025	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-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
74	Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning	2017	SIGMOD	0.00037164008
238	LinkBench: a Database Benchmark Based on the Facebook Social Graph	2013	SIGMOD	0.00023594951
496	Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2	2006	VLDB	0.00017347275
583	Automatic Performance Diagnosis and Tuning in Oracle	2005	CIDR	0.00015964021
937	A Modeling Study of the TPC-C Benchmark	1993	SIGMOD	0.00012958462
2,600	The Oracle Universal Server Buffer Manager	1997	VLDB	8.2179419e-05
3,140	Improving Flash Write Performance by Using Update Frequency	2013	VLDB	7.5864047e-05
3,872	Database Buffer Size Investigation for OLTP Workloads	1997	SIGMOD	6.939981e-05
5,284	Advances in Flash Memory SSD Technology for Enterprise Database Applications	2009	SIGMOD	6.1822786e-05
5,750	Durable Write Cache in Flash Memory SSD for Relational and NoSQL Databases	2014	SIGMOD	5.9907271e-05

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