Write-optimized Systems

• Lanyue Lu, Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau.WiscKey: Separating Keys from Values in SSD-conscious Storage. FAST 2016.
• Patrick O'Neil, Edward Cheng, Dieter Gawlick, Elizabeth O'Neil.The Log-Structured Merge-Tree (LSM-Tree). Acta Informatica.
• Pandian Raju, Rohan Kadekodi, Vijay Chidambaram, Ittai Abraham.PebblesDB: Building Key-Value Stores using Fragmented Log-Structured Merge Trees. SOSP 17.
• Alexander Conway et al.SplinterDB: Closing the Bandwidth Gap for NVMe Key-Value Stores. USENIX 20.
• William Jannen et al.BetrFS: A Right-Optimized Write-Optimized File System. FAST 15.

Storage Reliability

• Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai, et al.All File Systems Are Not Created Equal: On the Complexity of Crafting Crash-Consistent Applications. OSDI 2014.
• Aishwarya Ganesan, et al. Redundancy Does Not Imply Fault Tolerance FAST version | Magazine version
• Ramnatthan Alagappan, et al.Protocol-aware Recovery for Consensus-based Storage. FAST 2018.

Replicated Storage

• Leslie Lamport.Paxos Made Simple
• Ongaro and Ousterhout.In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm. ATC 2014.
• Aishwarya Ganesan, et al.Exploiting Nil-Externality of Fast Replicated Storage. SOSP 2021.
• Renesse and Schneider. Chain Replication for Supporting High Throughput and Availability. OSDI 2004.
• Jeff Terrace and Michael J. Freedman. Object Storage on CRAQ. ATC 2009.

Shared-log Designs

• Mahesh Balakrishnan et al.CORFU: A Shared Log Design for Flash Clusters
• Mahesh Balakrishnan et al.Tango: Distributed Data Structures over a Shared Log
• Mahesh Balakrishnan et al.Virtual Consensus in Delos
• Cong Ding et al.Scalog: Seamless Reconfiguration and Total Order in a Scalable Shared Log

Distributed File Systems

• Ghemawat et al.The Google File System
• SandbergThe Sun Network Filesystem: Design, Implementation and Experience
• Howard et al.Scale and Performance in a Distributed File System
• Nightingale et al.Speculative Execution in a Distributed File System
• Anderson et al.Assise: Performance and Availability via Client-local NVM in a Distributed File System
• Kim et al.LineFS: Efficient SmartNIC Offload of a Distributed File System with Pipeline Parallelism

Distributed KV Stores

• DeCandia et al. Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store
• Chang et al. Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
• Guerraoui et al. Incremental Consistency Guarantees for Replicated Objects