Oracle’s Symmetric Replication Technology and Implications for Application Design

Summary: Oracle Symmetric Replication extends snapshot replication to remove primary-site and row ownership constraints, enabling updates by any database. Supports read-only/updatable snapshots and P2P replication of full tables; a layered architecture (transport, generation, administration) informs application design. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2812
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1994
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,298 | 1.91%
DOI: 10.1145/191839.191930

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Authors

1. Dean Daniels (Oracle)
2. Lip Boon Doo (Oracle)
3. Alan Downing (Oracle)
4. Curtis Elsbernd (Oracle)
5. Gary Hallmark (Oracle)
6. Sandeep Jain (Oracle)
7. Bob Jenkins (Oracle)
8. Peter Lim (Oracle)
9. Gordon Smith (Oracle)
10. Benny Souder (Oracle)
11. Jim Stamos (Oracle)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{daniels_sigmod94,
        title = {{Oracle’s Symmetric Replication Technology and Implications for Application Design}},
        author = {Daniels, Dean and Doo, Lip Boon and Downing, Alan and Elsbernd, Curtis and Hallmark, Gary and Jain, Sandeep and Jenkins, Bob and Lim, Peter and Smith, Gordon and Souder, Benny and Stamos, Jim},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '94},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/191839.191930},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/191839.191930},
        year = {1994}
}

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643	Materialized Views In Oracle	1998	VLDB	0.00015372449

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