Oracle Corporation
High-performance implementation of sharing of read-only data in a multi-tenant environment

Abstract:

A container is a collection of schemas, objects, and related structures in a multitenant container database (CDB) that appears logically to an application as a separate database. Within a CDB, each container has a unique ID and name. The root database and every PDB is considered a container. PDBs isolate data and operations so that from the perspective of a user or application, each PDB appears as if it were a traditional non-CDB. A database management system that manages a container database is a container database management system (CDBMS). Data and metadata in the root database may include common schemas that make the functionality that users will often use available CDB-wide. To execute a query accessing a common schema, the common schemas may be accessed by sessions of a PDB without switching database contexts.