Micron Unveils World’s First Open-Source Storage Engine Designed for SSDs and Storage Class Memory
April 27 2020 - 8:00AM
Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced the first
open-source, heterogeneous-memory storage engine (HSE), designed
specifically for solid-state drives (SSDs) and storage-class memory
(SCM). Legacy storage engines born in the era of hard disk drives
(HDDs) failed to architecturally provide for the increased
performance and reduced latency of next-generation nonvolatile
media. HSE, originally developed by Micron and now available to the
open-source community, is ideal for developers using all-flash
infrastructure who require the benefits of open-source software,
including the ability to customize or enhance code for their unique
use cases.
“As the only company developing storage class memory, flash and
DRAM technologies, Micron is uniquely positioned to build a
software stack that accelerates applications running in today’s
flash-based storage environments as well as storage class
memory-based infrastructure of the future,” said Derek Dicker,
corporate vice president and general manager of the Storage
Business Unit at Micron. “We have delivered a first-of-its-kind
innovation for open-source storage developers, unlocking the full
potential of high-performance storage applications.”
In addition to delivering performance and endurance
improvements, HSE reduces latency, especially for large-scale data
sets, through intelligent data placement. HSE improves throughput
of particular storage applications by up to six times, reduces
latency 11 times1 and improves SSD endurance by seven times. HSE
can also take advantage of multiple classes of media concurrently,
such as flash and 3D XPoint technology. When a Micron X100
NVMe™ SSD, the world’s fastest SSD, is added to a set of four
Micron 5210 QLC SSDs, throughput more than doubles and read latency
improves nearly four times.2
“We see enormous potential in the technologies being introduced
by Micron, especially as it takes an innovative approach in
lowering the latency between compute, memory and storage
resources,” said Stefanie Chiras, vice president and general
manager of Red Hat Enterprise Linux at Red Hat. “We look forward to
working with Micron in the open-source community to further build
out these innovations, ultimately bringing new choices to the
storage world derived from open standards and concepts.”
“As the demand for object-based storage continues to increase
and it's deployed for more and more workloads, it's no surprise
that our customers are increasingly interested in fast object
storage," said Brad King, field chief technology officer and
co-founder of Scality. "While our storage software can support
'cheap and deep' on the lowest-cost commodity hardware for the
simplest workloads, it can also exploit the performance benefits of
technologies like flash, storage class memory and SSDs for very
demanding workloads. Micron's HSE technology enhances our ability
to continue optimizing flash performance, latency and SSD endurance
without trade-offs.”
Features and Benefits of the Heterogenous-Memory Storage
Engine:
- Integration with MongoDB, the world’s most popular NoSQL
database, delivers significant performance improvements, reduces
latency and takes full advantage of modern memory and storage
technologies. It can also be integrated with other storage
applications like NoSQL databases and object stores.
- HSE is ideal when performance at scale matters, including very
large data size, large key counts (billions), high operation
concurrency (thousands), or deployment of multiple classes of
media.
- The platform is designed to be extensible to new interfaces and
new storage devices, enabling use with a broad range of
applications and solutions, including databases, internet of things
(IoT), 5G, artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing
(HPC) and object storage.
- HSE is capable of delivering additional performance for
software-defined storage, such as Red Hat Ceph Storage and Scality
RING, that enables cloud-native applications through containerized
platforms like Red Hat OpenShift as well as tiered performance for
file, block and object storage protocols for multiple use
cases.
- HSE is delivered as an embeddable key-value database; Micron
will maintain the code repository on GitHub.
To learn more about HSE, visit www.micron.com/hse or to start
developing, visit www.github.com/hse-project.
About Micron Technology, Inc. We are an
industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions. Through
our global brands — Micron® and Crucial® — our broad portfolio of
high-performance memory and storage technologies, including DRAM,
NAND, 3D XPoint™ memory and NOR, is transforming how the world uses
information to enrich life. Backed by more than 40 years of
technology leadership, our memory and storage solutions enable
disruptive trends, including artificial intelligence, 5G, machine
learning and autonomous vehicles, in key market segments like
mobile, data center, client, consumer, industrial, graphics,
automotive, and networking. Our common stock is traded on the
Nasdaq under the MU symbol. To learn more about Micron Technology,
Inc., visit www.micron.com.
1 Tests performed using HSE v1.7.0 vs RocksDB v6.6.4 using YCSB
v0.17.0 and four Micron 9300 SSDs. Data represents the maximum
performance from various YCSB workload tests.
2 Tests performed using HSE v1.7.0 vs RocksDB v6.6.4 using YCSB
v0.17.0 and four Micron 5210 SSDs with and without an X100 SSD.
Data represents the performance from YCSB Workload A tests.
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