Authors:
Niloy Mukherjee
;
Amit Ganesh
;
Krishna Kuchithapadam
and
Sujatha Muthulingam
Affiliation:
Oracle SecureFiles Team, Oracle Corporation, United States
Keyword(s):
Oracle SecureFiles, Filesystems, Database Management Systems, Performance, Storage Utilization, Consistency, and Durability.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Business Analytics
;
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
Data Engineering
;
Data Warehouses and Data Mining
;
e-Business
;
Embedded Communications Systems
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Software Architectures
;
Telecommunications
Abstract:
Over the last decade, the nature of content stored on computer storage systems has evolved from being relational to being semi-structured, i.e., unstructured data accompanied by relational metadata. Average data volumes have increased from a few hundred megabytes to hundreds of terabytes. Simultaneously, data feed rates have also increased with increase in processor, storage and network bandwidths. Data growth trends seem to be following Moore's law and thereby imply an exponential explosion in content volumes and rates in the years to come. We introduce Oracle SecureFiles System, a storage architecture designed to provide highly scalable storage and access execution of unstructured and structured content as first-class objects within the Oracle relational database management system. Oracle SecureFiles breaks the performance barrier that has been keeping unstructured content out of databases. The architecture provides capability to maximize utilization of storage usage through compre
ssion and deduplication and preserves data management robustness through Oracle database server features such as transactional atomicity, durability, availability, read-consistent query-ability and security of the database management system.
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