Oracle Database Filesystem

Summary: DBFS merges filesystem interfaces with relational storage by storing unstructured content inside the database via SecureFiles. Preliminary Exadata eval (>10TB/hr IO on 4 nodes) suggests DBFS as universal storage for relational and unstructured data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4526
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 5.7312992e-05
Overall Rank: 6,944 | 52.36%
DOI: 10.1145/1989323.1989445

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Authors

1. Krishna Kunchithapadam (Oracle)
2. Wei Zhang (Oracle)
3. Amit Ganesh (Oracle)
4. Niloy Mukherjee (Oracle)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kunchithapadam_sigmod11,
        title = {{Oracle Database Filesystem}},
        author = {Kunchithapadam, Krishna and Zhang, Wei and Ganesh, Amit and Mukherjee, Niloy},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '11},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1989323.1989445},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1989323.1989445},
        year = {2011}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,800	JSON Data Management – Supporting Schema-less Development in RDBMS	2014	SIGMOD	8.1124117e-05
7,689	Oracle In-Database Hadoop: When MapReduce Meets RDBMS	2012	SIGMOD	5.5669484e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,868	Of Objects and Databases: A Decade of Turmoil	1996	VLDB	9.589955e-05
2,311	Cache Fusion: Extending Shared-Disk Clusters with Shared Caches	2001	VLDB	8.7650567e-05
7,212	Oracle SecureFiles System	2008	VLDB	5.6718856e-05
13,744	Oracle SecureFiles: Prepared for the Digital Deluge	2009	VLDB	-

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