Publications

Selected papers.

A complete list is on my Google Scholar profile.

• [SIGMOD'26] From JSON to Duality: Automated Application Migration from Document to Relational Databases

  Shashank Gugnani, Shadab Ahmed, Shubham Pednekar, Sanju Gowda, Sarvesh Tandon, and Sukhada Pendse

  International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD'26), June 2026

• [SIGMOD'25] JSON Relational Duality: A Revolutionary Combination of Document, Object, and Relational Models

  Shashank Gugnani, Zhen Hua Liu, Hui Chang, Beda Hammerschmidt, Srinivas Kareenhalli, Kishy Kumar, Tirthankar Lahiri, Ying Lu, Douglas McMahon, Ajit Mylavarapu, Sukhada Pendse, and Ananth Raghavan

  International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD'25), June 2025

• [HPDC'21] DStore: A Fast, Tailless, and Quiescent-Free Object Store for PMEM

  Shashank Gugnani and Xiaoyi Lu

  International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC'21), June 2021

• [IPDPS'21] NVMe-CR: A Scalable Ephemeral Storage Runtime for Checkpoint/Restart with NVMe-over-Fabrics

  Shashank Gugnani, Tianxi Li, and Xiaoyi Lu

  International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'21), May 2021

• [VLDB'21] Understanding the Idiosyncrasies of Real Persistent Memory

  Shashank Gugnani, Arjun Kashyap, and Xiaoyi Lu

  International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'21), Aug 2021

• [SC'20] RDMP-KV: Designing Remote Direct Memory Persistence based Key-Value Stores with PMEM

  Tianxi Li, Dipti Shankar, Shashank Gugnani, and Xiaoyi Lu

  International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC'20), Nov 2020

• [UCC'18] Analyzing, Modeling, and Provisioning QoS for NVMe SSDs

  Shashank Gugnani, Xiaoyi Lu, and Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda

  IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC'18), Dec 2018

• [BigData'17] Characterizing and Accelerating Indexing Techniques on Distributed Ordered Tables

  Shashank Gugnani, Xiaoyi Lu, Houliang Qi, Li Zha, and Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda

  IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData'17), Dec 2017

• [BigData'16] High-Performance Design of Apache Spark with RDMA and Its Benefits on Various Workloads

  Xiaoyi Lu, Dipti Shankar, Shashank Gugnani, and Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda

  IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData'16), Dec 2016

• [JGC'16] Extending Science Gateway Frameworks to Support Big Data Applications in the Cloud

  S. Gugnani, C. Blanco, T. Kiss, and G. Terstyanszky

  Journal of Grid Computing, Jun 2016