Join processing for flash SSDs
Jaeyoung Do, Jignesh M. Patel · 2009
Flash solid state drives (SSDs) provide an attractive alternative to traditional magnetic hard disk drives (HDDs) for DBMS applications. Naturally there is substantial interest in redesigning critical database internals, such as join algorithms, for flash SSDs. However, we must carefully consider the lessons that we have learnt from over three decades of designing and tuning algorithms for magnetic HDD-based systems, so that we continue to reuse techniques that worked for magnetic HDDs and also work with flash SSDs.