US 7,610,268 B2Granted

Pre-defined hardware and software bundle ready for database applications

AssigneeOracle International Corporation

InventorsJay Rossiter, David Stowell, Pari Bhaduri, Venkat Malla, Jane Chen, Ramkumar Venkataraman, Yuanjiang Ou, Muthu Olagappan, Thivakaram Prakash Sivakumar

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Abstract

A database system that incorporates numerous features that reduce the total cost of maintaining the database system is provided. The database system includes a database appliance that executes a database server on a platform that includes a special purpose operating system specifically tailored to the services required by the database server. The hardware may also be specially tailored to the services required by the database server. The database sever may be generated from another database server by modifying the code of the other database server optimize the code for execution on said database appliance. According to another aspect, the database appliance includes an operating system and a database server generated from another database server by modifying the code of the other database server optimize the code for execution on said database appliance.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A database appliance, comprising:

one or more processors;
one or more storage devices operatively coupled to the one or more processors;
an operating system;
and
a modified database server generated from another database server by modifying the code of the other database server,
wherein the modified database server is a database server that was produced from the other database server by:
determining whether the database appliance is for use in conjunction with an online transaction processing (OLTP) application or an online analytical processing (OLAP) application;
if the database appliance is for use in conjunction with an OLTP application, then the other database server is optimized for I/O performance to produce the modified database server;
if the database appliance is for use in conjunction with an OLAP application, then the other database server is optimized for computation performance to produce the modified database server;
wherein the modified database server obtains services of the operating system by making calls to the operating system during execution of the modified database server;
and
wherein the database appliance allocates a CPU share for a process and assigns a priority to the process based on the changing resource demands associated with the process.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/211,118Filed 23 Aug 2005 · division
Priority: 29 Jan 1999
Published: US 2006/0004779 A15 Jan 2006
Granted: 27 Oct 2009
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G06F 9/46
Using stored programs, i.e. using an internal store of processing equipment to receive or retain programs: multiprogramming arrangements
G06F 8/70
Arrangements for software engineering: software maintenance or management
G06F 16/21
Of structured data, e.g. relational data: design, administration or maintenance of databases
Y10S 707/99932
Database or file accessing: access augmentation or optimizing

Family

Application09/240,229Parent of this division · filed 29 Jan 1999
Application09/945,135Parent of this continuation · filed 31 Aug 2001
Application10/762,949Parent of this division · filed 21 Jan 2004
US 2006/0004779 A1Pre-grant publication · published 5 Jan 2006
US 6,988,102 B2Parent of this continuation
Application10/762,949Parent of this continuation
US 6,487,547 B1Parent of this division
Application09/945,135Parent of this division
US 2002/0059291 A1Published application
US 2004/0153438 A1Published application
US 7,752,164 B2Related patent
US 7,610,268 B2This patent

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