Abstract: A system may include a hardware-based emulation platform configured to emulate operation of a design-under-test (“DUT”), a database system, and a verification system. The verification system may include a storage system which may include a memory layer and a local storage layer, where the memory layer has a lower memory access latency than the local storage layer. The verification system may also include a design verification engine configured to send test data to the hardware-based emulation platform; buffer response data received from the DUT into the memory layer and the local storage layer; determine to aggregate the response data stored in both the memory layer and local storage layer into a write transaction according to buffering criteria, and issue the write transaction to the database system to store the aggregated response data in the database system.