Modern key-value stores typically rely on an LSM-tree in storage (SSD) to handle writes and
Bloom filters in memory (DRAM) to optimize reads. With ongoing advances in SSD …

Modern storage engines and key-value stores have come to rely on the log-structured
merge-tree (LSM-tree) as their core data structure. LSM-tree operates by gradually merge …

4 zettabytes (4 billion terabytes) of data generated in 2013, 44 zettabytes predicted for 2020
and 185 zettabytes for 2025. These figures are staggering and perfectly illustrate this new …

NVMe is widely used by diverse types of storage and non-volatile memories subsystems as
a de-facto fast I/O communication interface. Industries secure their own intellectual property …

We revisit the problem of Full Disk Encryption (FDE), which refers to the encryption of each
sector of a disk volume. In the context of FDE, it is assumed that there is no space to store …

Flash memory is widely used in solid state drives (SSD), smartphones and so on because of
their non-volatility, low power consumption, rapid access speed, and resistance to shocks …

The volume of metadata needed by a flash translation layer (FTL) is proportional to the
storage capacity of a flash device. Ideally, this metadata should reside in the device's …

The internal nature of flash memory technology, makes its performance highly dependent on
workload characteristics causing poor performance on random writes. To solve this …

Increasing usage of Solid-State Drives (SSDs) has greatly boosted the performance of
storage backends. SSDs perform many internal processes such as out-of-place writes, wear …

In the embedded systems domain, obtaining performance and power consumption
estimations is extremely valuable in numerous cases. This is particularly true during the …