uFLIP: Understanding Flash IO Patterns

Summary: Introduces uFLIP, a benchmark and methodology to quantify flash IO patterns (temporal/spatial distributions) and their response times. Reports measurements on 11 flash devices and derives practical design hints for DB systems about which IOs to favor or avoid. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hfca37e1dfdd356dc
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 0.00010956951
Overall Rank: 1,344 | 91.00%
DOI: -
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Authors

1. Luc Bouganim (INRIA; University of Versailles)
2. Björn Þór Jónsson (Reykjavik University)
3. Philippe Bonnet (University of Copenhagen)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{bouganim_cidr09,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '09},
        title = {{uFLIP: Understanding Flash IO Patterns}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Bouganim, Luc and Jónsson, Björn Þór and Bonnet, Philippe},
        year = {2009}
}

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515	Tree Indexing on Solid State Drives	2010	VLDB	0.00016989841
671	Rethinking Database Algorithms for Phase Change Memory	2011	CIDR	0.00014912266
1,028	Aether: A Scalable Approach to Logging	2010	VLDB	0.00012390677
1,127	FlashLogging: Exploiting Flash Devices for Synchronous Logging Performance	2009	SIGMOD	0.00011887959
1,485	Query Processing Techniques for Solid State Drives	2009	SIGMOD	0.00010498393
1,507	BF-Tree: Approximate Tree Indexing	2014	VLDB	0.0001041737
2,851	Turbocharging DBMS Buffer Pool Using SSDs	2011	SIGMOD	7.9214445e-05
3,140	Improving Flash Write Performance by Using Update Frequency	2013	VLDB	7.5864047e-05
5,275	Data Management Over Flash Memory	2011	SIGMOD	6.1868172e-05
5,651	MaSM: Efficient Online Updates in Data Warehouses	2011	SIGMOD	6.0346713e-05
5,956	Operation-Aware Buffer Management in Flash-based Systems	2011	SIGMOD	5.9167319e-05
5,967	The Necessary Death of the Block Device Interface	2013	CIDR	5.913895e-05
7,411	GeckoFTL: Scalable Flash Translation Techniques For Very Large Flash Devices	2016	SIGMOD	5.5164757e-05
7,582	Flash Device Support for Database Management	2011	CIDR	5.4749853e-05
8,128	System Co-Design and Data Management for Flash Devices	2011	VLDB	5.3739121e-05
8,453	It Takes Two: Instrumenting the Interaction between In-Memory Databases and Solid-State Drives	2020	CIDR	5.3148581e-05
9,698	The End of Moore’s Law and the Rise of The Data Processor	2021	VLDB	5.1258854e-05
10,365	Re-evaluating Designs for Multi-Tenant OLTP Workloads on SSD-based I/O Subsystems	2014	SIGMOD	5.0102135e-05
11,420	SSD-iq: Uncovering the Hidden Side of SSD Performance	2025	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
12,780	Performing Sound Flash Device Measurements: Some Lessons from uFLIP	2010	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
12,800	Secure Personal Data Servers: a Vision Paper	2010	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
14,004	EagleTree: Exploring the Design Space of SSD-Based Algorithms	2013	VLDB	-

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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
503	Design of Flash-Based DBMS: An In-Page Logging Approach	2007	SIGMOD	0.00017231771
571	A Case for Flash Memory SSD in Enterprise Database Applications	2008	SIGMOD	0.00016168887

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