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: 8725
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 5.644428e-05
Overall Rank: 7,324 | 49.76%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. R. Bamford (Oracle)
2. D. Butler (Oracle)
3. B. Klots (Oracle)
4. N. Macnaughton (Oracle)

BibTeX Citation

@article{bamford_vldb98,
        title = {{Architecture of Oracle Parallel Server}},
        author = {Bamford, R. and Butler, D. and Klots, B. and Macnaughton, N.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '98},
        pages = {669--670},
        year = {1998}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,006	Fast-Start: Quick Fault Recovery in Oracle	2001	SIGMOD	5.5079205e-05

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