#70: SPDK Blobstore: A Look Inside the NVM Optimized Allocator

The Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) is an open source set of tools and libraries for writing high performance, scalable, user-mode storage applications. It achieves high performance by moving all of the necessary drivers into userspace and operating in a polled mode instead of relying on interrupts. The Blobstore is a relative newcomer to SPDK and provides local, persistent, power-fail safe block allocator designed to replace filesystem usage in many popular databases. Most importantly, the Blobstore has been designed for the properties of flash and next-generation media from the start and directly leverages NVMe features. The team has already ported a popular embedded key/value database, RocksDB, to use the Blobstore which demonstrated a significant improvement for database queries under common workloads. In this session we will explore the basics of the Blobstore and review some of the latest exciting performance data!