Educating people has always been a challenge for me. I tend to skip over things I wrongly consider obvious, or do large leaps in reasoning when explaining a solution to a problem. And so, when faced with an attempt to explain a complex topic, I tend to ramble on and on, hoping that the audience …

Introduction We have just split libvmem and its companion libvmmalloc out of the PMDK tree. They now live in a separate repository, and will follow their own release cadence. And, as these libraries are considered mature and finished, no new releases are planned once the split has been tested and …

If you are following our mailing group, you’ve probably noticed a stream of release announcements for libraries that are a part of PMDK. Here’s a recap of the most important new features and additions. libpmemkv 1.0 The primary goal of PMDK is enabling adoption of Persistent Memory. We …

Introduction C++ language restrictions and the persistent memory programming paradigm imply serious restrictions on objects which may be stored on persistent medium. A user can access persistent memory with memory mapped files to take advantage of its byte addressability thanks to libpmemobj and …

Introduction vmemcache which we have recently described performs close to optimum when either all keys are approximately equally likely to be queried, or when all key:value pairs fit completely into the fastest form of memory you are willing to use. But, in many workloads, some keys are “hot” and …