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: h6a411e4dffcf45d4
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 5.3820824e-05
Overall Rank: 8,181 | 45.00%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Ashok Joshi (Oracle)
2. William Bridge (Oracle)
3. Juan Loaiza (Oracle)
4. Tirthankar Lahiri (Oracle)

BibTeX Citation

@article{joshi_vldb98,
        title = {{Checkpointing in Oracle}},
        author = {Joshi, Ashok and Bridge, William and Loaiza, Juan and Lahiri, Tirthankar},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '98},
        pages = {665},
        year = {1998}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,373	LRU-C: Parallelizing Database I/Os for Flash SSDs	2023	VLDB	5.5402255e-05
8,141	Fast-Start: Quick Fault Recovery in Oracle	2001	SIGMOD	5.3918615e-05
9,590	NV-SQL: Boosting OLTP Performance with Non-Volatile DIMMs	2023	VLDB	5.1567377e-05

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