The Oracle Universal Server Buffer Manager

Summary: Portable, scalable buffer management for Oracle's Universal Data Server across OLTP, DSS, and multimedia workloads. Buffer pools scale from 50 to millions; supports uniprocessors, shared-disk clusters, MPP, and shared-memory platforms, addressing concurrency and throughput. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8464
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 8.132433e-05
Overall Rank: 2,777 | 80.69%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,485	Improving OLTP Scalability using Speculative Lock Inheritance	2009	VLDB	0.00011706232
2,348	Cache Fusion: Extending Shared-Disk Clusters with Shared Caches	2001	VLDB	8.9887146e-05
4,680	To Share or Not to Share?	2007	VLDB	6.0039406e-05
4,772	The ADABAS Buffer Pool Manager	1998	VLDB	5.9329023e-05
4,891	Distributed Architecture of Oracle Database In-memory	2015	VLDB	5.8516672e-05
5,186	Query Optimization in Oracle 12c Database In-Memory	2015	VLDB	5.6400929e-05
6,861	HetCache: Synergising NVMe Storage and GPU acceleration for Memory-Efficient Analytics	2023	CIDR	4.905263e-05
7,329	LRU-C: Parallelizing Database I/Os for Flash SSDs	2023	VLDB	4.7610574e-05
7,383	Fast-Start: Quick Fault Recovery in Oracle	2001	SIGMOD	4.7446085e-05
8,426	Avoiding Read Stalls on Flash Storage	2022	SIGMOD	4.5162792e-05
8,435	Your Read is Our Priority in Flash Storage	2022	VLDB	4.5139996e-05
9,899	Accelerating Analytics with Dynamic In-Memory Expressions	2016	VLDB	4.2600049e-05
9,958	OceanBase Paetica: A Hybrid Shared-nothing/Shared-everything Database for Supporting Single Machine and Distributed Cluster	2023	VLDB	4.2364477e-05
12,733	50,000 Users on an Oracle8 Universal Server Database	1998	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
12,744	Low-Cost Compensation-Based Query Processing	1998	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
1,536	Cache Coherency in Oracle Parallel Server	1996	VLDB	0.00011466326

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