This document describes the various components involved in managing memory, data, logs, and files for a database system. Key components include the buffer pool, log buffer, dispatcher, session manager, checkpoint memory ager, buffer flusher, log flusher, logfile manager, archive process, and load balancer. Other aspects mentioned are redo logfiles, datafiles, checkpoint image files, loganchor files, properties file, password file, trace files, SQL plan cache, and temporary files.