This paper from HotStorage'25 presents OrcaCache, a design proposal for a coordinated caching framework tailored to disaggregated storage systems. In a disaggregated architecture, compute and storage resources are physically separated and connected via high-speed networks. These became increasingly common in modern data centers as they enable flexible resource scaling and improved fault isolation. (Follow the money as they say!) But accessing remote storage introduces serious latency and effi...| Metadata
Last week, we read “Databases in the Era of Memory-Centric Computing” CIDR’25 paper in our reading group. This paper argues that the rising cost of main memory and lagging improvement in memory bandwidth do not bode well for traditional computing architectures centered around computing devices (i.e., CPUs). As CPUs get more cores, the memory bandwidth […]| Aleksey Charapko