Data Compression in Oracle

Summary: Oracle RDBMS introduces a relational-data-specific compression scheme yielding high compression with virtually no SQL query overhead. Data warehouses benefit: store several times more history without extra storage or query slowdown, with potential gains for backups and recovery. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9037
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2003
Pagerank: 0.00012102269
Overall Rank: 1,415 | 90.17%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Meikel Poess
2. Dmitry Potapov

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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708	Performance Tradeoffs in Read-Optimized Databases	2006	VLDB	0.00017753572
1,255	Aggregation and Ordering in Factorised Databases	2013	VLDB	0.00013011216
1,260	Data Blocks: Hybrid OLTP and OLAP on Compressed Storage using both Vectorization and Compilation	2016	SIGMOD	0.00012990853
1,478	Write-Optimized B-Trees	2004	VLDB	0.00011727205
1,622	Row-wise Parallel Predicate Evaluation	2008	VLDB	0.00011104582
1,908	How to Barter Bits for Chronons: Compression and Bandwidth Trade Offs for Database Scans	2007	SIGMOD	0.00010130401
2,137	How to Wring a Table Dry: Entropy Compression of Relations and Querying of Compressed Relations	2006	VLDB	9.463768e-05
2,863	Efficient Index Compression in DB2 LUW	2009	VLDB	7.9982677e-05
2,890	Database Compression on Graphics Processors	2010	VLDB	7.9586083e-05
3,088	FDB: A Query Engine for Factorised Relational Databases	2012	VLDB	7.5940302e-05
3,225	Interleaving with Coroutines: A Practical Approach for Robust Index Joins	2018	VLDB	7.3487507e-05
3,907	Native Store Extension for SAP HANA	2019	VLDB	6.6384027e-05
5,240	Online Deduplication for Databases	2017	SIGMOD	5.6060424e-05
6,160	Compression Aware Physical Database Design	2011	VLDB	5.1750659e-05
8,054	Generating Succinct Descriptions of Database Schemata for Cost-Efficient Prompting of Large Language Models	2024	VLDB	4.5909042e-05
8,658	RadixZip: Linear Time Compression of Token Streams	2007	VLDB	4.4682399e-05
9,917	Shared Load(ing): Efficient Bulk Loading into Optimized Storage	2020	CIDR	4.2520778e-05
11,039	Blitzcrank: Fast Semantic Compression for In-memory Online Transaction Processing	2024	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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