A Case for Flash Memory SSD in Enterprise Database Applications

Summary: Assesses enterprise DB applicability of flash SSDs for workloads with sequential writes and random reads. Empirically shows more than an order of magnitude speedup in transaction processing by moving logs, rollback segments, and temporary space from disks to flash. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hcf4dddca676f002d
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 0.00016224945
Overall Rank: 570 | 96.17%
DOI: 10.1145/1376616.1376723

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Authors

1. Sang-Won Lee (Sungkyunkwan University)
2. Bongki Moon (University of Arizona)
3. Chanik Park (Samsung)
4. Jae-Myung Kim (Altibase Corporation)
5. Sang-Woo Kim (Sungkyunkwan University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{lee_sigmod08,
        title = {{A Case for Flash Memory SSD in Enterprise Database Applications}},
        author = {Lee, Sang-Won and Moon, Bongki and Park, Chanik and Kim, Jae-Myung and Kim, Sang-Woo},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376723},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376723},
        year = {2008}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
261	Data-Oriented Transaction Execution	2010	VLDB	0.00022868935
513	Tree Indexing on Solid State Drives	2010	VLDB	0.00017044842
981	Lazy-Adaptive Tree: An Optimized Index Structure for Flash Devices	2009	VLDB	0.00012716964
1,026	Aether: A Scalable Approach to Logging	2010	VLDB	0.00012423267
1,125	FlashLogging: Exploiting Flash Devices for Synchronous Logging Performance	2009	SIGMOD	0.00011926907
1,333	uFLIP: Understanding Flash IO Patterns	2009	CIDR	0.00010996088
1,484	Query Processing Techniques for Solid State Drives	2009	SIGMOD	0.00010535051
2,369	BlueCache: A Scalable Distributed Flash-based Key-value Store	2017	VLDB	8.5618147e-05
2,379	NVRAM-aware Logging in Transaction Systems	2015	VLDB	8.5478851e-05
2,839	Turbocharging DBMS Buffer Pool Using SSDs	2011	SIGMOD	7.9506131e-05
2,920	What Modern NVMe Storage Can Do, And How To Exploit It: High-Performance I/O for High-Performance Storage Engines	2023	VLDB	7.8540089e-05
3,103	An Object Placement Advisor for DB2 Using Solid State Storage	2009	VLDB	7.6482159e-05
4,608	Not your Grandpa's SSD: The Era of Co-Designed Storage Devices	2021	SIGMOD	6.5035877e-05
5,249	Workload-Aware Storage Layout for Database Systems	2010	SIGMOD	6.210978e-05
5,251	Data Management Over Flash Memory	2011	SIGMOD	6.2090582e-05
5,260	Advances in Flash Memory SSD Technology for Enterprise Database Applications	2009	SIGMOD	6.2053402e-05
5,315	OctopusFS: A Distributed File System with Tiered Storage Management	2017	SIGMOD	6.1841352e-05
5,616	Flash-Based Extended Cache for Higher Throughput and Faster Recovery	2012	VLDB	6.0639583e-05
5,943	Operation-Aware Buffer Management in Flash-based Systems	2011	SIGMOD	5.9387777e-05
6,891	X-SSD: A Storage System with Native Support for Database Logging and Replication	2022	SIGMOD	5.6543315e-05
7,444	hStorage-DB: Heterogeneity-aware Data Management to Exploit the Full Capability of Hybrid Storage Systems	2012	VLDB	5.5249523e-05
7,671	Towards Cost-Effective Storage Provisioning for DBMSs	2012	VLDB	5.4772833e-05
8,103	System Co-Design and Data Management for Flash Devices	2011	VLDB	5.3942942e-05
8,861	Parallel I/O Aware Query Optimization	2014	SIGMOD	5.2628437e-05
9,184	PR-Join: A Non-Blocking Join Achieving Higher Early Result Rate with Statistical Guarantees	2010	SIGMOD	5.211541e-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
7	Implementation Techniques For Main Memory Database Systems	1984	SIGMOD	0.00081992507
19	A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels	1995	SIGMOD	0.00058781151
70	The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite)	2007	VLDB	0.00037859131
99	The Design of the POSTGRES Storage System	1987	VLDB	0.00034033763
499	Design of Flash-Based DBMS: An In-Page Logging Approach	2007	SIGMOD	0.0001729286
2,708	An Integrated Approach to Recovery and High Availability in an Updatable, Distributed Data Warehouse	2006	VLDB	8.1067346e-05

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