Write-Only Disk Caches

Summary: Write-Only Disk Caches (WODCs) piggy-back writes on read bandwidth, achieving near-zero write cost with a few-percent cache and no locality. Simulations/analysis map write-cost to cache size, read/write mix, and disk geometry, noting battery-backed reliability for OLTP. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hc983b0ba3039f697
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1990
Pagerank: 6.8592982e-05
Overall Rank: 4,000 | 73.12%
DOI: 10.1145/93597.98722

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Authors

1. Jon A Solworth (University of Illinois Chicago)
2. Cyril U Orji (Argonne National Laboratory; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{solworth_sigmod90,
        title = {{Write-Only Disk Caches}},
        author = {Solworth, Jon A and Orji, Cyril U},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '90},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/93597.98722},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/93597.98722},
        year = {1990}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
401	A Case for Fractured Mirrors	2002	VLDB	0.00019102313
1,757	Write-Optimized B-Trees	2004	VLDB	9.7107503e-05
5,301	Doubly Distorted Mirrors	1993	SIGMOD	6.1876703e-05
5,738	Durable Write Cache in Flash Memory SSD for Relational and NoSQL Databases	2014	SIGMOD	6.0105141e-05
7,127	Disk Mirroring with Alternating Deferred Updates	1993	VLDB	5.5991152e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
279	Disk Shadowing	1988	VLDB	0.0002230589

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