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Elevating commodity storage with the SALSA host translation layer
To satisfy increasing storage demands in both capacity and performance,
industry has turned to multiple storage technologies, including Flash SSDs and
SMR disks. These devices employ a translation layer that conceals the
idiosyncrasies of their mediums and enables random access. Device translation
layers are, however, inherently constrained: resources on the drive are scarce,
they cannot be adapted to application requirements, and lack visibility across
multiple devices. As a result, performance and durability of many storage
devices is severely degraded.
In this paper, we present SALSA: a translation layer that executes on the
host and allows unmodified applications to better utilize commodity storage.
SALSA supports a wide range of single- and multi-device optimizations and,
because is implemented in software, can adapt to specific workloads. We
describe SALSA's design, and demonstrate its significant benefits using
microbenchmarks and case studies based on three applications: MySQL, the Swift
object store, and a video server.Comment: Presented at 2018 IEEE 26th International Symposium on Modeling,
Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS
Ssd Flash Drives Used to Improve Performance with Clarity Data Warehouse
Since the introduction of solid-state devices (SSD), both storage area network (SAN) administrators and database administrators (DBA) have imagined the performance gains promised by replacing hard disk drives (HDD). The initial testing in the laboratory did not promise those gains in the real world. The SSD vendors worked between 2007 and 2010 to improve performance, which in industry standard tests showed steady progress. Despite the gains in the laboratory, there were few examples of real world usage particularly in the field of data warehousing. The process of extracting, transforming and loading (ETL) places extreme loads on the ability of the storage device to update data. This paper studies the effect on one such data warehouse
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