Chapter 9. Oracle Architecture

Oracle continues to be a key product on the Sun platform; Oracle’s dominant database market share in the Unix marketplace translates to a large customer base on Sun systems. In this chapter we examine the architecture of Oracle, focusing on the process model, memory management, and data storage. We also consider parallel processing issues.

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