Kioxia and Aerospike Collaborate to Improve Database Application Performance

Tests show significant improvements in software and storage class memory capabilities

Kioxia Corporation today announced a partnership with Aerospike to enhance the Aerospike Server Community Edition database.The application performance of the database has been improved by 36% compared to the original software, which was not enhanced by Kioxia.The test is based on the Kioxia FL6 series of enterprise-class NVMe® Storage Class Memory (SCM) solid-state drives and a software enhancement developed by Kioxia.

Aerospike databases are optimized to run on both flash and solid-state drives, enabling the high throughput and low latency of flash.

Featuring Kioxia's SCM solution XL-FLASH® and compliant with PCIe® 4.0 and NVMe 1.4 standards, the Kioxia FL6 series SSDs bridge the gap between DRAM and TLC hard drives, making them ideal for latency-sensitiveUse cases such as caching tiers, tiering, and write logging.Currently, Kioxia dual-port FL6 series hard drives are in mass production, offering high endurance (60 DWPD) and capacities up to 3,200 GB.

Kioxia will announce detailed Aerospike test results during its keynote at Flash Memory Summit on August 2.

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*DWPD: The number of full disk writes per day.Refilling the hard drive once a day means that the hard drive can be filled and refilled once a day for 5 years of the warranty period of the product in question.Actual results may vary based on system configuration, usage and other factors.Read and write speeds may vary depending on host device, read and write conditions, and file size.

*Definition of capacity: Kioxia Corporation defines a megabyte (MB) as 1,000,000 bytes, a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes, and a terabyte (TB) as 1,000,000,000,000 wordsFestival.However, computer operating systems use powers of 2 to report storage capacity, defining 1Gb = 2^30 bits = 1,073,741,824 bits, 1GB = 2^30 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes, 1TB = 2^40 bytes = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes,Therefore the displayed storage capacity is smaller.Available storage capacity (including examples of various media files) will vary based on file size, format, settings, software and operating system and/or pre-installed software applications, or media content.Actual formatted capacity may vary.

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About Kioxia
Kioxia is a global leader in memory solutions, developing, manufacturing and selling flash memory and solid state drives (SSDs).Toshiba invented NAND flash memory in 1987. In April 2017, the predecessor of Kioxia, Toshiba Memory Group, was spun off from Toshiba.Kioxia is committed to enhancing the world with "memory" by providing products, services and systems that provide customers with choice and create memory-based value for society.Kioxia's innovative 3D flash memory technology, BiCS FLASH™, is shaping the future of storage for many high-capacity applications, including advanced smartphones, PCs, SSDs, automobiles, and data centers.

About Aerospike
The Aerospike real-time data platform enables businesses to take instant action across billions of transactions while reducing server footprint by up to 80%.The Aerospike multi-cloud platform delivers predictable sub-millisecond performance for petabyte-scale real-time applications with highly consistent globally distributed data and 99.999% reliable uptime.Apps created on Aerospike's real-time data platform can combat fraud, provide recommendations to dramatically increase shopping cart size, enable global digital payments, and deliver a hyper-personalized user experience to tens of millions of customers.Customers such as Airtel, Criteo, Experian, Nielsen, PayPal, Snap, Wayfair and Yahoo all rely on Aerospike as a future-proof data foundation.The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices in London, Bangalore and Tel Aviv.