Customized Interfaces for Modern Storage Devices

Authors

Leonardo Marmol, Florida International UniversityFollow

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Major/Program

Computer Science

First Advisor's Name

Raju Rangaswami

First Advisor's Committee Title

Committee Chair

Second Advisor's Name

Leonardo Babadilla

Second Advisor's Committee Title

Committee Member

Third Advisor's Name

Guang Quan

Third Advisor's Committee Title

Committee Member

Fourth Advisor's Name

Jason Liu

Fourth Advisor's Committee Title

Committee Member

Fifth Advisor's Name

Ning Xie

Fifth Advisor's Committee Title

Committee Member

Keywords

Computer Science

Date of Defense

3-31-2017

Abstract

In the past decade, we have seen two major evolutions on storage technologies: flash storage and non-volatile memory. These storage technologies are both vastly different in their properties and implementations than the disk-based storage devices that current soft- ware stacks and applications have been built for and optimized over several decades. The second major trend that the industry has been witnessing is new classes of applications that are moving away from the conventional ACID (SQL) database access to storage. The resulting new class of NoSQL and in-memory storage applications consume storage using entirely new application programmer interfaces than their predecessors. The most significant outcome given these trends is that there is a great mismatch in terms of both application access interfaces and implementations of storage stacks when consuming these new technologies.

In this work, we study the unique, intrinsic properties of current and next-generation storage technologies and propose new interfaces that allow application developers to get the most out of these storage technologies without having to become storage experts them- selves. We first build a new type of NoSQL key-value (KV) store that is FTL-aware rather than flash optimized. Our novel FTL cooperative design for KV store proofed to simplify development and outperformed state of the art KV stores, while reducing write amplification. Next, to address the growing relevance of byte-addressable persistent memory, we build a new type of KV store that is customized and optimized for persistent memory. The resulting KV store illustrates how to program persistent effectively while exposing a simpler interface and performing better than more general solutions. As the final component of the thesis, we build a generic, native storage solution for byte-addressable persistent memory. This new solution provides the most generic interface to applications, allow- ing applications to store and manipulate arbitrarily structured data with strong durability and consistency properties. With this new solution, existing applications as well as new “green field” applications will get to experience native performance and interfaces that are customized for the next storage technology evolution.

Identifier

FIDC001816

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Marmol, Leonardo, "Customized Interfaces for Modern Storage Devices" (2017). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3165.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3165