Redesigning LSMs for Nonvolatile Memory with NoveLSM

Authors: 

Sudarsun Kannan, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Nitish Bhat and Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Tech; Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Abstract: 

We present NoveLSM, a persistent LSM-based key-value storage system designed to exploit non-volatile memories and deliver low latency and high throughput to applications. We utilize three key techniques – a byte- addressable skip list, direct mutability of persistent state, and opportunistic read parallelism – to deliver high performance across a range of workload scenarios. Our analysis with popular benchmarks and real-world workload reveal up to a 3.8x and 2x reduction in write and read access latency compared to LevelDB. Storing all the data in a persistent skip list and avoiding block I/O provides more than 5x and 1.9x higher write throughput over LevelDB and RocksDB. Recovery time improves substantially with NoveLSM’s persistent skip list.

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {215997,
author = {Sudarsun Kannan and Nitish Bhat and Ada Gavrilovska and Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau},
title = {Redesigning {LSMs} for Nonvolatile Memory with {NoveLSM}},
booktitle = {2018 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 18)},
year = {2018},
isbn = {978-1-939133-01-4},
address = {Boston, MA},
pages = {993--1005},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc18/presentation/kannan},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jul
}

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