LightPool: A Cloud‑Native NVMe‑oF Based High‑Performance Storage Pool Architecture for Distributed Databases
The article introduces LightPool, an open‑source, cloud‑native storage‑pool architecture presented at HPCA 2024, which leverages NVMe‑over‑Fabric, Kubernetes CSI integration, and a lightweight user‑space engine to deliver high‑performance, elastic, and highly available storage for large‑scale distributed databases while reducing cost and improving resource utilization.