KV-SSD Performance Study

The first comprehensive characterization of Key-Value SSD I/O behavior under diverse workloads, providing foundational data for the emerging KV storage stack research community.

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KV-SSD Performance Study

This project produced the first systematic performance characterization of Key-Value SSD devices. By testing KV-SSDs under a wide variety of workloads — varying key sizes, value sizes, operation mixes, and concurrency levels — we established baseline performance expectations for the emerging KV storage stack.

Key Results

  • First comprehensive I/O behavior characterization of the KV-SSD storage stack
  • Identified performance bottlenecks and unexpected behavior patterns under diverse workloads
  • Published at DAC 2021 (58th Design Automation Conference)
  • Additional analysis of SSD performance under varying temperature and humidity conditions