Exadata Storage Indexes Part II – Differences With Database Indexes (Space Dementia)

Let’s explore some of the key differences between Storage Indexes (SI) and Database Indexes (DI). In no particular order, they include: SIs are structures that exist only within the storage servers of an Exadata box, while DIs logically exist and can be accessed within the database servers. SIs are purely memory only structures while DIs are […]