The GLOBAL BUFFERS ARE ENABLED clause specifies that Oracle Rdb maintain one global buffer pool per node in the cluster for each database. By default, Oracle Rdb maintains a local buffer pool for each user. For more than one user to use the same page, each must read it from disk into their local buffer pool. When the GLOBAL BUFFERS ARE ENABLED clause has been specified, a page in the global buffer pool may be read by more than one user at the same time, although only one user reads the page from disk into the global buffer pool. Global buffering provides improved performance because I/O is reduced and memory is better utilized. The default is GLOBAL BUFFERS ARE DISABLED, in which Oracle Rdb maintains a local buffer pool for each user, and global buffers are not enabled.