Alex Conway
Affiliated Researcher
New York City, NY, US
Alex is a researcher at VMware Research. His research bridges storage systems and external memory theory, and he leads the SplinterDB project.
Projects
- BetrFS
- SplinterDB
- Hash-Based Virtual Memory
- Iceberg Hashtables
- Approximate Membership Query Data Structures
Publications
- The Full Path to Full-Path Indexing
- Optimal Ball Recycling
- Optimal Ball Recycling (conference version)
- Small Refinements to the DAM Can Have Big Consequences for Data-Structure Design
- File-System Aging: It's More Usage than Fullness
- How to Copy Files
- SplinterDB: Closing the Bandwidth Gap for NVMe Key-Value Stores
- Copy-on-Abundant-Write for Nimble File System Clones
- Vector Quotient Filters: Overcoming the Time/Space Trade-Off in Filter Design
- External-Memory Dictionaries in the Affine and PDAM Models
- Paging and the Address Translation Problem
- BetrFS: A Compleat File System for Commodity SSDs
- SplinterDB and Maplets: Improving the Trade-Offs in LSM Compaction Policy
- IcebergHT: High Performance PMEM Hash Tables Through Stability and Low Associativity
- Online List Labeling: Breaking the log^2 n Barrier
- Sharding the State Machine: Automated Modular Reasoning for Complex Concurrent Systems
- Mosaic Pages: Big TLB Reach with Small Pages
- IONIA: Efficient Replication for SSD-based Write-Optimized KV Stores
- Mosaic Pages: Big TLB Reach with Small Pages (IEEE MICRO Top Picks)