Toward a Better Understanding and Evaluation of Tree Structures on Flash SSDs
Summary: Identifies seven benchmarking pitfalls in evaluating tree structures on SSDs, showing how software–firmware interactions skew RocksDB/WiredTiger performance. Provides guidelines for reproducibility and fair comparisons across tree/storage configurations. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Diego Didona (IBM)
- 2. Nikolas Ioannou (IBM)
- 3. Radu Stoica (IBM)
- 4. Kornilios Kourtis (Cilium)
BibTeX Citation
@article{didona_vldb21,
title = {{Toward a Better Understanding and Evaluation of Tree Structures on Flash SSDs}},
author = {Didona, Diego and Ioannou, Nikolas and Stoica, Radu and Kourtis, Kornilios},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '21},
volume = {14},
number = {3},
pages = {364--377},
doi = {10.14778/3430915.3430926},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3430915.3430926},
year = {2021}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,868 | Spooky: Granulating LSM-Tree Compactions Correctly | 2022 | VLDB | 7.9241972e-05 |
| 6,617 | CAVE: Concurrency-Aware Graph Processing on SSDs | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.7327861e-05 |
| 9,430 | FlashAlloc: Dedicating Flash Blocks By Objects | 2023 | VLDB | 5.1785224e-05 |
| 10,725 | How to Write to SSDs | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine | 2013 | SIGMOD | 0.00048001919 |
| 224 | Self-Driving Database Management Systems | 2017 | CIDR | 0.00024013745 |
| 258 | bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.00022939599 |
| 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 |
| 1,320 | Building a Bw-Tree Takes More Than Just Buzz Words | 2018 | SIGMOD | 0.00011045319 |
| 1,422 | The Log-Structured Merge-Bush & the Wacky Continuum | 2019 | SIGMOD | 0.00010725538 |
| 2,995 | Accordion: Better Memory Organization for LSM Key-Value Stores | 2018 | VLDB | 7.7705434e-05 |
| 3,130 | Improving Flash Write Performance by Using Update Frequency | 2013 | VLDB | 7.6146434e-05 |
| 4,121 | On Performance Stability in LSM-based Storage Systems | 2020 | VLDB | 6.7946812e-05 |
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