An Examination of CXL Memory Use Cases for In-Memory Database Management Systems using SAP HANA

M Ahn, T Willhalm, N May, D Lee, SM Desai… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
CXL-based disaggregated memory systems offer options to expand the memory beyond the
limits of a single server via cache-coherent memory expansion cards or memory pools …

Disaggregated database systems

J Wang, Q Zhang - Companion of the 2023 International Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Disaggregated database systems achieve unprecedented excellence in elasticity and
resource utilization at the cloud scale and have gained great momentum from both industry …

Computational cxl-memory solution for accelerating memory-intensive applications

J Sim, S Ahn, T Ahn, S Lee, M Rhee… - IEEE Computer …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
CXL interface is the up-to-date technology that enables effective memory expansion by
providing a memory-sharing protocol in configuring heterogeneous devices. However, its …

COAXIAL: A CXL-Centric Memory System for Scalable Servers

A Cho, A Saxena, M Qureshi… - … Conference for High …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The memory system is a major performance determinant for server processors. Ever-
growing core counts and datasets demand higher memory bandwidth and capacity. DDR …

A case for cxl-centric server processors

A Cho, A Saxena, M Qureshi, A Daglis - arxiv preprint arxiv:2305.05033, 2023 - arxiv.org
The memory system is a major performance determinant for server processors. Ever-
growing core counts and datasets demand higher bandwidth and capacity as well as lower …

A CXL-powered database system: Opportunities and challenges

Y Guo, G Li - 2024 IEEE 40th International Conference on Data …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Compute Express Link (CXL) is emerging as a significant player in the landscape of modern
database man-agement systems (DBMS). CXL is an open industry-standard interconnect …

TDSQL: Tencent Distributed Database System

Y Chen, A Pan, H Lei, A Ye, S Han, Y Tang… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Distributed databases have become indispensable in contemporary computing and data
processing, owing to their pivotal role in ensuring high availability and scalability. They …

Breaking barriers: Expanding gpu memory with sub-two digit nanosecond latency cxl controller

D Gouk, S Kang, H Bae, E Ryu, S Lee, D Kim… - Proceedings of the 16th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
This work introduces a GPU storage expansion solution utilizing CXL, featuring a novel GPU
system design with multiple CXL root ports for integrating diverse storage media (DRAMs …

Elastic Use of Far Memory for In-Memory Database Management Systems

D Lee, T Willhalm, M Ahn, S Mutalik Desai… - Proceedings of the 19th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The separation and independent scalability of compute and memory is one of the crucial
aspects for modern in-memory database systems (IMDBMSs) in the cloud. The new, cache …

[PDF][PDF] Database Kernels: Seamless Integration of Database Systems and Fast Storage via CXL.

S Lee, A Lerner, P Bonnet, P Cudré-Mauroux - CIDR, 2024 - exascale.info
Flash memory is the de facto standard for data persistence in dataintensive systems. Despite
its benefits, this type of memory has at least one severe disadvantage: it is offered only as …