Various key-value (KV) stores are widely employed for data management to support Internet
services as they offer higher efficiency, scalability, and availability than relational database …

Emerging Zoned Namespace (ZNS) SSDs, providing the coarse-grained zone abstraction,
hold the potential to significantly enhance the cost-efficiency of future storage infrastructure …

A unique merit of a solid-state drive (SSD) is its internal parallelism. In this article, we
present a set of comprehensive studies on understanding and exploiting internal parallelism …

The Zoned Namespace (ZNS) Solid State Drive (SSD) is a nascent form of storage device
that offers novel prospects for the Log Structured Merge Tree (LSM-tree). ZNS exposes …

In at least one embodiment, a controller of a non-volatile memory array including a plurality
of subdivisions stores write data within the non-volatile memory array utilizing a plurality of …

File fragmentation has been widely studied for several decades because it negatively
influences various I/O activities. To eliminate fragmentation, most defragmentation tools …

Processing-in-memory (PIM) and in-storage-computing (ISC) architectures have been
constructed to implement computation inside memory and near storage, respectively. While …

Intel's Optane solid-state nonvolatile storage device is constructed using their new 3D Xpoint
technology. Although it is claimed that this technology can deliver substantial performance …

The performance and capacity of solid-state drives (SSDs) are continuously improving to
meet the increasing demands of modern data-intensive applications. Unfortunately …

QLC (4-bit-per-cell) and more-bit-per-cell 3D NAND flash memories are increasingly
adopted in large storage systems. While achieving significant cost reduction, these …