POLARDB Meets Computational Storage - Efficiently Support Analytical Workloads in Cloud

Explore a conference talk from FAST '20 that delves into the deployment of computational storage drives in Alibaba Cloud to enhance analytical workloads in cloud-native relational databases. Learn about POLARDB's compute-storage decoupled architecture and the challenges of maintaining cost-effectiveness while pushing data-intensive tasks to storage nodes. Discover how computational storage drives offer a solution by leveraging in-storage computing power for efficient table scans. Examine the implementation challenges and design techniques developed to integrate this technology into Alibaba's cloud infrastructure. Gain insights into the first real-world deployment of cloud-native databases with computational storage drives, covering topics such as data path transparent compression, system evaluation, and unit testing on storage nodes.