Exploring storage class memory with key value stores
Katelin A. Bailey, Peter Hornyack, Luís Ceze, Steven D. Gribble, Henry M. Levy · 2013
In the near future, new storage-class memory (SCM) technologies -- such as phase-change memory and memristors -- will radically change the nature of long-term storage. These devices will be cheap, non-volatile, byte addressable, and near DRAM density and speed. While SCM offers enormous opportunities, profiting from them will require new storage systems specifically designed for SCM's properties.