The Oracle Universal Server Buffer Manager

Summary: Oracle’s Universal Server buffer manager targets diverse OLTP, DSS, and multimedia workloads with scalable concurrency and bandwidth. Its portable design spans 50 to millions of buffers across uniprocessors, clusters, MPPs, and shared-memory multiprocessors. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8655
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 8.41572e-05
Overall Rank: 2,558 | 82.46%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. W. Bridge (Oracle)
2. A. Joshi (Oracle)
3. M. Keihl (Oracle)
4. T. Lahiri (Oracle)
5. J. Loaiza (Oracle)
6. N. Macnaughton (Oracle)

BibTeX Citation

@article{bridge_vldb97,
        title = {{The Oracle Universal Server Buffer Manager}},
        author = {Bridge, W. and Joshi, A. and Keihl, M. and Lahiri, T. and Loaiza, J. and Macnaughton, N.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '97},
        pages = {590},
        year = {1997}
}

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1,282	Improving OLTP Scalability using Speculative Lock Inheritance	2009	VLDB	0.00011338762
2,311	Cache Fusion: Extending Shared-Disk Clusters with Shared Caches	2001	VLDB	8.7650567e-05
4,416	Query Optimization in Oracle 12c Database In-Memory	2015	VLDB	6.7150543e-05
4,508	To Share or Not to Share?	2007	VLDB	6.6561159e-05
4,560	Distributed Architecture of Oracle Database In-memory	2015	VLDB	6.6309507e-05
4,947	The ADABAS Buffer Pool Manager	1998	VLDB	6.4316891e-05
6,487	HetCache: Synergising NVMe Storage and GPU acceleration for Memory-Efficient Analytics	2023	CIDR	5.8651793e-05
7,261	LRU-C: Parallelizing Database I/Os for Flash SSDs	2023	VLDB	5.6612613e-05
8,006	Fast-Start: Quick Fault Recovery in Oracle	2001	SIGMOD	5.5079205e-05
8,710	Avoiding Read Stalls on Flash Storage	2022	SIGMOD	5.378796e-05
8,723	Your Read is Our Priority in Flash Storage	2022	VLDB	5.3769695e-05
9,530	OceanBase Paetica: A Hybrid Shared-nothing/Shared-everything Database for Supporting Single Machine and Distributed Cluster	2023	VLDB	5.2543048e-05
10,053	Accelerating Analytics with Dynamic In-Memory Expressions	2016	VLDB	5.1685424e-05
12,926	50,000 Users on an Oracle8 Universal Server Database	1998	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,937	Low-Cost Compensation-Based Query Processing	1998	VLDB	5.093636e-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
2,766	Cache Coherency in Oracle Parallel Server	1996	VLDB	8.152051e-05

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