Farview: Disaggregated Memory with Operator Off-loading for Database Engines

Understand

Cloud deployments disaggregate storage from compute, providing more flexibility to both the storage and compute layers.

• In this paper, we explore disaggregation by taking it one step further and applying it to memory (DRAM).
• Disaggregated memory uses network attached DRAM as a way to decouple memory from CPU.
• In the context of databases, such a design offers significant advantages in terms of making a larger memory capacity available as a central pool to a collection of smaller processing nodes.