Reducing DRAM footprint with NVM in Facebook
Assaf Eisenman, Darryl Gardner, Islam Abdelrahman, Jens Axboe, Siying Dong, Kim Hazelwood, Chris Petersen, Asaf Cidon, Sachin Rajsekhar Katti · 2018
Popular SSD-based key-value stores consume a large amount of DRAM in order to provide high-performance database operations. However, DRAM can be expensive for data center providers, especially given recent global supply shortages that have resulted in increasing DRAM costs. In this work, we design a key-value store, MyNVM, which leverages an NVM block device to reduce DRAM usage, and to reduce the total cost of ownership, while providing comparable latency and queries-per-second (QPS) as MyRocks on a server with a much larger amount of DRAM. Replacing DRAM with NVM introduces several challenges. In particular, NVM has limited read bandwidth, and it wears out quickly under a high write bandwidth.