The field of storage and transactional systems is witnessing significant developments, with a focus on improving performance, reducing latency, and enhancing security. Researchers are exploring innovative approaches to data management, such as record caching, latch-free mechanisms, and computational storage devices. These advancements aim to address the limitations of traditional storage systems and provide more efficient and scalable solutions. One of the key directions in this field is the adoption of disaggregated memory and federated coherence models, which enable more efficient data sharing and processing. Additionally, the rise of Compute Express Link (CXL) technology is prompting researchers to reevaluate crash consistency in persistent memory applications. Noteworthy papers include:

• Deuteronomy 2.0, which introduces a latch-free approach and record caching to improve cache cost/performance.
• TSUE, which proposes a two-stage data update method to reduce update latency and improve performance in erasure-coded cluster file systems.