SaS: SSD as SQL Database System

Summary: SaS places a full SQL engine inside the SSD, replacing the host’s IHDE and costly I/O stack. By making the SSD a database server, it enables vertical engine–flash co-optimization, especially for disaggregated and virtualized data centers. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h7e33543dbe259048
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 5.5751486e-05
Overall Rank: 7,243 | 51.32%
DOI: 10.14778/3461535.3461538
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Authors

1. Jong-Hyeok Park (Sungkyunkwan University)
2. Soyee Choi (Samsung)
3. Gihwan Oh (Sungkyunkwan University)
4. Sang-Won Lee (Sungkyunkwan University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{park_vldb21,
        title = {{SaS: SSD as SQL Database System}},
        author = {Park, Jong-Hyeok and Choi, Soyee and Oh, Gihwan and Lee, Sang-Won},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '21},
        volume = {14},
        number = {9},
        pages = {1481--1488},
        doi = {10.14778/3461535.3461538},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3461535.3461538},
        year = {2021}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,036	Exploiting Cloud Object Storage for High-Performance Analytics	2023	VLDB	6.8360867e-05
4,992	GOLAP: A GPU-in-Data-Path Architecture for High-Speed OLAP	2024	SIGMOD	6.3217714e-05
8,776	Append is Near: Log-based Data Management on ZNS SSDs	2022	CIDR	5.2789261e-05
8,892	Your Read is Our Priority in Flash Storage	2022	VLDB	5.2538364e-05
11,364	No Cap, This Memory Slaps: Breaking Through the Memory Wall of Transactional Database Systems with Processing-in-Memory	2025	VLDB	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
63	Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases	2017	SIGMOD	0.00038521221
864	Let’s Talk About Storage & Recovery Methods for Non-Volatile Memory Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	0.00013388481
1,060	Accelerating Relational Databases by Leveraging Remote Memory and RDMA	2016	SIGMOD	0.00012219425
1,139	Query Processing on Smart SSDs: Opportunities and Challenges	2013	SIGMOD	0.0001185547
1,283	Managing Non-Volatile Memory in Database Systems	2018	SIGMOD	0.00011205832
1,313	X-Engine: An Optimized Storage Engine for Large-scale E-commerce Transaction Processing	2019	SIGMOD	0.00011055196
1,512	Cloud-Native Database Systems at Alibaba: Opportunities and Challenges	2019	VLDB	0.00010425349
1,589	YourSQL: A High-Performance Database System Leveraging In-Storage Computing	2016	VLDB	0.00010134884
1,638	Apache IoTDB: Time-series Database for Internet of Things	2020	VLDB	0.00010009319
1,779	Ibex—An Intelligent Storage Engine with Support for Advanced SQL Off-loading	2014	VLDB	9.6575635e-05
2,351	Understanding the Effect of Data Center Resource Disaggregation on Production DBMSs	2020	VLDB	8.5944808e-05
2,875	Exploiting Directly-Attached NVMe Arrays in DBMS	2020	CIDR	7.916817e-05
3,795	B+-tree Index Optimization by Exploiting Internal Parallelism of Flash-based Solid State Drives	2012	VLDB	7.0144802e-05
4,816	Computational Storage: Where Are We Today?	2021	CIDR	6.39818e-05
4,990	Optimizing Databases by Learning Hidden Parameters of Solid State Drives	2020	VLDB	6.3233984e-05
5,667	X-FTL: Transactional FTL for SQLite Databases	2013	SIGMOD	6.0434894e-05
5,738	Durable Write Cache in Flash Memory SSD for Relational and NoSQL Databases	2014	SIGMOD	6.0105141e-05
6,649	SHARE Interface in Flash Storage for Relational and NoSQL Databases	2016	SIGMOD	5.7202072e-05
6,835	SQL Statement Logging for Making SQLite Truly Lite	2018	VLDB	5.6661619e-05
8,515	Tackling Hardware/Software co-design from a database perspective	2020	CIDR	5.3242523e-05

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