CNSBench: A Cloud Native Storage Benchmark

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CNSBench is a Kubernetes-native benchmark that separately drives IO workloads (using existing tools) and control workloads (volume create/attach/snapshot) via a benchmark controller and a reusable workload library on GitHub. Evaluation runs on a 10-node cluster compare Ceph vs OpenEBS with MongoDB + YCSB, showing snapshots reduce YCSB throughput (larger impact on OpenEBS) and most snapshots complete quickly but a long tail causes some to take up to ten minutes.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:43New Trends in Cloud Computing
3. 1:43More Storage Control Operations
4. 3:41Diversity and Specialization
5. 4:40Elasticity and Dynamicity
6. 5:15Motivation Summary
7. 6:01CNSBench Design Requirements
8. 9:43Experimental Setup
9. 9:56Impacts on I/O Workloads
10. 11:04Future Work

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