Checkpointing in Oracle

Summary: Oracle 8.0 deploys incremental checkpointing: background, continuous writes of dirty buffers to shorten crash recovery. Scales to millions of buffers; user-controlled write rate balances overhead and recovery time with new data structures and algorithms. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8533
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 4.5994072e-05
Overall Rank: 8,043 | 44.05%
DOI: -

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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
9,342	NV-SQL: Boosting OLTP Performance with Non-Volatile DIMMs	2023	VLDB	4.3554097e-05

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