In order to meet the stringent requirements of low latency as well as high throughput, web
service providers with large data centers have been replacing magnetic disk drives with …

Due to its superiority such as low access latency, low energy consumption, light weight, and
shock resistance, the success of flash memory as a storage alternative for mobile computing …

Database consistency and recoverability require guaranteeing write atomicity for one or
more pages. However, contemporary database systems consider write operations non …

Considering the current price gap between hard disk and flash memory SSD storages, for
applications dealing with large-scale data, it will be economically more sensible to use flash …

Solid-state drives (SSDs) are quickly becoming the default storage medium as the cost of
NAND flash memory continues to drop. However, flash memory introduces new challenges …

The database architecture and workhorse algorithms have been designed to compensate
for hard disk properties. The I/O characteristics of Flash memories have significant impact on …

Over the past decade, new solid state storage technologies, with flash being the most
mature one, have become increasingly popular. Such technologies store data durably, and …

The past few decades have witnessed a chronic and widening imbalance among processor
bandwidth, disk capacity, and access speed of disk. According to Amdhal's law, the …

When a dirty victim page is selected for replacement upon page miss, the buffer manager
has to first flush the dirty victim to the storage before reading the missing page. This …

Flash memory is the de facto standard for data persistence in dataintensive systems. Despite
its benefits, this type of memory has at least one severe disadvantage: it is offered only as …