Paper Info
Title
Performance Characterization of Hyperscale Applicationson on NVMe SSDs
Abstract
The storage subsystem has undergone tremendous innovation in order to keep up with the ever-increasing demand for throughput. NVMe based SSDs are the latest development in this domain, delivering unprecedented performance in terms of both latency and peak bandwidth. Given their superior performance, NVMe drives are expected to be particularly beneficial for I/O intensive applications in datacenter installations. In this paper we identify and analyze the different factors leading to the better performance of NVMe SSDs. Then, using databases as the prominent use-case, we show how these would translate into real-world benefits. We evaluate both a relational database (MySQL) and a NoSQL database (Cassandra) and demonstrate significant performance gains over best-in-class enterprise SATA SSDs: from 3.5x for TPC-C and up to 8.5x for Cassandra.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2745844.2745901
International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
hyperscale applications,nosql databases,nvme,performance characterization,ssds
Relational database,Computer science,Latency (engineering),Real-time computing,NVM Express,NoSQL,Hyperscale,Bandwidth (signal processing),Throughput,Operating system
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
43
1
0163-5999
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.39
3
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qiumin Xu11196.13
Huzefa Siyamwala240.75
Mrinmoy Ghosh336722.39
Manu Awasthi4414.93
Tameesh Suri5495.44
Zvika Guz619410.21
Anahita Shayesteh71008.54
Vijay Balakrishnan8535.94