Durable Write Cache in Flash Memory SSD for Relational and NoSQL Databases

Summary: Introduces DuraSSD, a flash memory SSD with tantalum-capacitor durable cache for atomic page writes in relational and NoSQL OLTP. First to show durable cache on flash yields an order-of-magnitude transaction throughput gain with minimal cost (~1%), reducing write stalls and tail latency. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h39a3c16e5988c604
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 6.0105141e-05
Overall Rank: 5,738 | 61.44%
DOI: 10.1145/2588555.2595632

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Authors

1. Woon-Hak Kang (Sungkyunkwan University)
2. Sang-Won Lee (Samsung; Sungkyunkwan University)
3. Bongki Moon (Seoul National University)
4. Yang-Suk Kee (Samsung)
5. Moonwook Oh (Samsung)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kang_sigmod14,
        title = {{Durable Write Cache in Flash Memory SSD for Relational and NoSQL Databases}},
        author = {Kang, Woon-Hak and Lee, Sang-Won and Moon, Bongki and Kee, Yang-Suk and Oh, Moonwook},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '14},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2588555.2595632},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2588555.2595632},
        year = {2014}
}

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2,921	What Modern NVMe Storage Can Do, And How To Exploit It: High-Performance I/O for High-Performance Storage Engines	2023	VLDB	7.8503064e-05
5,019	2R: Efficiently Isolating Cold Pages in Flash Storages	2020	VLDB	6.3104018e-05
6,649	SHARE Interface in Flash Storage for Relational and NoSQL Databases	2016	SIGMOD	5.7202072e-05
6,890	X-SSD: A Storage System with Native Support for Database Logging and Replication	2022	SIGMOD	5.652433e-05
7,243	SaS: SSD as SQL Database System	2021	VLDB	5.5751486e-05
8,855	Avoiding Read Stalls on Flash Storage	2022	SIGMOD	5.2624701e-05
9,598	NV-SQL: Boosting OLTP Performance with Non-Volatile DIMMs	2023	VLDB	5.1542966e-05
10,735	How to Write to SSDs	2026	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
11,111	Boosting OLTP Performance with Per-Page Logging on NVDIMM	2025	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
11,199	Moving on From Group Commit: Autonomous Commit Enables High Throughput and Low Latency on NVMe SSDs	2025	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
12,212	SSD as SQLite Engine	2018	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
99	The Design of the POSTGRES Storage System	1987	VLDB	0.00034019355
236	LinkBench: a Database Benchmark Based on the Facebook Social Graph	2013	SIGMOD	0.00023664907
933	A Modeling Study of the TPC-C Benchmark	1993	SIGMOD	0.00013001256
1,586	Fractal Prefetching B+-Trees: Optimizing Both Cache and Disk Performance	2002	SIGMOD	0.00010143882
1,749	The Case For Safe RAM	1989	VLDB	9.7289256e-05
2,131	Integrating Reliable Memory in Databases	1997	VLDB	8.9918109e-05
4,000	Write-Only Disk Caches	1990	SIGMOD	6.8592982e-05
5,264	Advances in Flash Memory SSD Technology for Enterprise Database Applications	2009	SIGMOD	6.2024293e-05

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