Database Kernels: Seamless Integration of Database Systems and Fast Storage via CXL
Summary: Replace NVMe block I/O with CXL-exposed Flash-backed memory to provide coherent host–device access and remove I/O indirection. Introduce Database Kernels (DBKs): device-resident, CXL-backed units that execute DB-centric computations on accesses, enabling offload of indexing, query and transactional primitives for higher efficiency and new heterogeneous DB architectures. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Sangjin Lee (University of Freiburg)
- 2. Alberto Lerner (University of Freiburg)
- 3. Philippe Bonnet (University of Copenhagen)
- 4. Philippe Cudré-Mauroux (University of Freiburg)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{lee_cidr24,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '24},
title = {{Database Kernels: Seamless Integration of Database Systems and Fast Storage via CXL}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Lee, Sangjin and Lerner, Alberto and Bonnet, Philippe and Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe},
year = {2024}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,943 | CXL and the Return of Scale-Up Database Engines | 2024 | VLDB | 6.3442191e-05 |
| 7,321 | An Examination of CXL Memory Use Cases for In-Memory Database Management Systems using SAP HANA | 2024 | VLDB | 5.5534395e-05 |
| 8,156 | Pasha: An Efficient, Scalable Database Architecture for CXL Pods | 2025 | CIDR | 5.3880193e-05 |
| 8,758 | DDS: DPU-optimized Disaggregated Storage | 2024 | VLDB | 5.2837968e-05 |
| 9,792 | Hash Joins Meet CXL: A Fresh Look | 2026 | CIDR | 5.1257999e-05 |
| 10,727 | SIDLE: Tree-structure Aware Indexes for CXL-based Heterogeneous Memory | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS | 2005 | VLDB | 0.00068998927 |
| 728 | Anti-Caching: A New Approach to Database Management System Architecture | 2013 | VLDB | 0.00014414001 |
| 1,139 | Query Processing on Smart SSDs: Opportunities and Challenges | 2013 | SIGMOD | 0.00011860667 |
| 1,321 | Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing: A Survey | 2017 | SIGMOD | 0.00011040617 |
| 1,590 | YourSQL: A High-Performance Database System Leveraging In-Storage Computing | 2016 | VLDB | 0.00010139329 |
| 4,608 | Not your Grandpa's SSD: The Era of Co-Designed Storage Devices | 2021 | SIGMOD | 6.5035877e-05 |
| 4,814 | Computational Storage: Where Are We Today? | 2021 | CIDR | 6.4012102e-05 |
| 4,987 | Optimizing Databases by Learning Hidden Parameters of Solid State Drives | 2020 | VLDB | 6.3263932e-05 |
| 6,891 | X-SSD: A Storage System with Native Support for Database Logging and Replication | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.6543315e-05 |
| 8,428 | It Takes Two: Instrumenting the Interaction between In-Memory Databases and Solid-State Drives | 2020 | CIDR | 5.3350162e-05 |
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