Applications that create and consume unstructured data have grown both in scale of storage requirements and complexity of search primitives. We consider two such applications: exhaustive search and integration of structured and unstructured data. Current blockbased storage systems are either incapable or inefficient to address the challenges bought forth by the above applications. We propose a storage framework to efficiently store and search unstructured and structured data while controlling

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... orage management costs. Experimental results based on our prototype show that the proposed system can provide impressive performance and feature benefits.