An improved B+ tree for flash file systems
SOFSEM'11 Proceedings of the 37th international conference on Current trends in theory and practice of computer science
FlashB-tree: a novel B-tree index scheme for solid state drives
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Research in Applied Computation
A DRAM-flash index for native flash file systems
Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis
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With the rapid increasing capacity of flash chips, flash-aware indexing techniques are highly desirable for flash devices. The unique features of flash memory, such as the erase-before-write constraint and the asymmetric read/write cost, severely deteriorate the performance of the traditional B+-tree algorithm. In this paper, we propose a new indexing method, called lazy-update B+-tree, to overcome the limitations of flash memory. The basic idea is to defer the time of committing update requests to the B+-tree by buffering them in a segment of main memory. They are later committed in groups so that each write operation can be amortized by a bunch of update requests. We identify a victim selection problem for the lazy-update B+-tree and develop two heuristic-based commit policies to address the problem. Simulation results show that the proposed lazy-update method, along with a well-designed commit policy, greatly improves the update performance of the traditional B+-tree while preserving the query efficiency.