50,000 Users on an Oracle8 Universal Server Database

Summary: Oracle8 scales to 50k concurrent users on a single DB without TP-monitors, via scalable processes, buffers, and SQL execution. InterOffice workload on a 2-node Sun cluster shows parallel server, resource sharing, high availability, and portability from desktops to enterprise settings. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3118
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,926 | 11.32%
DOI: 10.1145/276304.276366

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Authors

1. Tirthankar Lahiri (Oracle)
2. Ashok Joshi (Oracle)
3. Amit Jasuja (Oracle)
4. Sumanta Chatterjee (Oracle)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{lahiri_sigmod98,
        title = {{50,000 Users on an Oracle8 Universal Server Database}},
        author = {Lahiri, Tirthankar and Joshi, Ashok and Jasuja, Amit and Chatterjee, Sumanta},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '98},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/276304.276366},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/276304.276366},
        year = {1998}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,006	Fast-Start: Quick Fault Recovery in Oracle	2001	SIGMOD	5.5079205e-05

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,558	The Oracle Universal Server Buffer Manager	1997	VLDB	8.41572e-05
2,766	Cache Coherency in Oracle Parallel Server	1996	VLDB	8.152051e-05

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