Is Sequential IO Dead in the Era of the NVMe Drive?

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Jack Vanlightly. "Is Sequential IO Dead in the Era of the NVMe Drive?" jack-vanlightly.com, May 2023. Archived at perma.cc/7TMZ-TAPU

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Is sequential IO dead in the era of the NVMe drive? — Jack Vanlightly

Two systems I know pretty well, Apache BookKeeper and Apache Kafka, were designed in the era of the spinning disk, the hard-drive or HDD. Hard-drives are good at sequential IO but not so good at random IO because of the relatively high seek times. No wonder then that both Kafka and BookKeeper were designed with sequential IO in mind. Both Kafka and BookKeeper are distributed log systems and so you…

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