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: 5.5582274e-05
Overall Rank: 7,253 | 51.39%
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}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,058	Exploiting Cloud Object Storage for High-Performance Analytics	2023	VLDB	6.8134824e-05
4,872	GOLAP: A GPU-in-Data-Path Architecture for High-Speed OLAP	2024	SIGMOD	6.3582628e-05
8,795	Append is Near: Log-based Data Management on ZNS SSDs	2022	CIDR	5.2615565e-05
8,912	Your Read is Our Priority in Flash Storage	2022	VLDB	5.236464e-05
11,417	No Cap, This Memory Slaps: Breaking Through the Memory Wall of Transactional Database Systems with Processing-in-Memory	2025	VLDB	4.9605343e-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	0.00038609177
865	Let’s Talk About Storage & Recovery Methods for Non-Volatile Memory Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	0.00013346121
1,048	Accelerating Relational Databases by Leveraging Remote Memory and RDMA	2016	SIGMOD	0.00012302514
1,138	Query Processing on Smart SSDs: Opportunities and Challenges	2013	SIGMOD	0.00011842684
1,288	Managing Non-Volatile Memory in Database Systems	2018	SIGMOD	0.00011172386
1,324	X-Engine: An Optimized Storage Engine for Large-scale E-commerce Transaction Processing	2019	SIGMOD	0.00011019001
1,509	Cloud-Native Database Systems at Alibaba: Opportunities and Challenges	2019	VLDB	0.00010415166
1,589	YourSQL: A High-Performance Database System Leveraging In-Storage Computing	2016	VLDB	0.00010112634
1,644	Apache IoTDB: Time-series Database for Internet of Things	2020	VLDB	9.9773086e-05
1,782	Ibex—An Intelligent Storage Engine with Support for Advanced SQL Off-loading	2014	VLDB	9.6551269e-05
2,352	Understanding the Effect of Data Center Resource Disaggregation on Production DBMSs	2020	VLDB	8.5790132e-05
2,881	Exploiting Directly-Attached NVMe Arrays in DBMS	2020	CIDR	7.8945474e-05
3,802	B+-tree Index Optimization by Exploiting Internal Parallelism of Flash-based Solid State Drives	2012	VLDB	6.9914085e-05
4,837	Computational Storage: Where Are We Today?	2021	CIDR	6.3770692e-05
5,014	Optimizing Databases by Learning Hidden Parameters of Solid State Drives	2020	VLDB	6.3025338e-05
5,679	X-FTL: Transactional FTL for SQLite Databases	2013	SIGMOD	6.0235059e-05
5,750	Durable Write Cache in Flash Memory SSD for Relational and NoSQL Databases	2014	SIGMOD	5.9907271e-05
6,662	SHARE Interface in Flash Storage for Relational and NoSQL Databases	2016	SIGMOD	5.7012926e-05
6,853	SQL Statement Logging for Making SQLite Truly Lite	2018	VLDB	5.6476004e-05
8,530	Tackling Hardware/Software co-design from a database perspective	2020	CIDR	5.3067157e-05

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