Feature analysis of selected database recovery techniques

  • Authors:
  • Bharat Bhargava;Leszek Lilien

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

  • Venue:
  • AFIPS '81 Proceedings of the May 4-7, 1981, national computer conference
  • Year:
  • 1981

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Abstract

Database recovery techniques in a real-time environment for so called single-division databases are investigated. A classification of database recovery goals and a classification of database system crashes is presented. It is shown that the (best) recovery goal is a function of a crash category against which the system is to be protected. In particular, for the broadest category of hidden hard crashes an actual past state is an attainable recovery goal. It is described how to reach this goal using a generic recovery technique, based on an idea of a database recovery block. The specific recovery techniques implementing the generic technique are described. Then the representation of each specific recovery technique in terms of atomic "primitives" is demonstrated. The claim is made that this "divide-and-conquer" approach can facilitate the analysis of the database recovery techniques.