An anomaly in space-time characteristics of certain programs running in a paging machine
Communications of the ACM
CFLRU: a replacement algorithm for flash memory
CASES '06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Compilers, architecture and synthesis for embedded systems
A design for high-performance flash disks
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review - Systems work at Microsoft Research
Design of flash-based DBMS: an in-page logging approach
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
The five-minute rule twenty years later, and how flash memory changes the rules
DaMoN '07 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Data management on new hardware
Communications of the ACM - Web science
BPLRU: a buffer management scheme for improving random writes in flash storage
FAST'08 Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
Design tradeoffs for SSD performance
ATC'08 USENIX 2008 Annual Technical Conference on Annual Technical Conference
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Online maintenance of very large random samples on flash storage
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
System software for flash memory: a survey
EUC'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing
A space-efficient flash translation layer for CompactFlash systems
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
Adapting the b+-tree for asymmetric i/o
ADBIS'12 Proceedings of the 16th East European conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems
Query processing on smart SSDs: opportunities and challenges
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
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The random read efficiency of flash memory, combined with its growing density and dropping price, make it well-suited for use as a read cache. We explore how a system can use flash memory as a cache layer between the main memory buffer pool and the magnetic disk. We study the problem of deciding which data pages to cache on flash and propose alternatives that serve different purposes. We give an analytical model to decide the optimal caching scheme for any workload, taking into account the physical properties of the flash disk used. We discuss implementation issues such as the effect of the flash cache block size on performance. Our experimental evaluation shows that questions on systems with flash-resident caches cannot be given universal answers that hold across all flash disks and workloads. Rather, our cost model should be applied per case to provide an optimal setup with confidence.