Abstract—Flash-based Solid State Drives are highperformance data storage device. SSDs deliver high performance than the traditionally rotating storage hard drives. The main objective of this work is to evaluate the Solid State Drive (SSD) performance as a choice for database storage device. Initially SSD out performed in terms of transactions per second as compared to the local disk. After increasing the load, the throughput started flattening. Initial system monitoring has shown some interesting patterns. It was found that soft bottlenecks in the application were chocking the performance lift. By doing the code profiling we overcome with the soft bottlenecks. Later, we observed high performance on flashbased SSD in comparison to local disk.

Index Terms—Benchmark, evaluation, OLTP, SSD and SAS.

The author is with the PERC, TCS Gateway Park, Andheri, Mumbai 400093 (e-mail: rajesh.meena@tcs.com).

Cite:Rajesh Meena, "A Performance Evaluation of OLTP Workloads on Flash- Based SSDs," International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 116-119, 2014.