Architecture of Oracle Parallel Server

Summary: OPS, a shared-disk RDBMS, is presented at a high level to identify its central architectural issues and design tensions. Tracing its evolution across Oracle releases reveals how architectural choices affect parallelism, consistency, and scalability in a shared-data environment. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8535
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 4.9899438e-05
Overall Rank: 6,612 | 54.05%
DOI: -

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7,383	Fast-Start: Quick Fault Recovery in Oracle	2001	SIGMOD	4.7402683e-05

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