Transactions for distributed wikis on structured overlays

  • Authors:
  • Stefan Plantikow;Alexander Reinefeld;Florian Schintke

  • Affiliations:
  • Zuse Institute Berlin;Zuse Institute Berlin;Zuse Institute Berlin

  • Venue:
  • DSOM'07 Proceedings of the Distributed systems: operations and management 18th IFIP/IEEE international conference on Managing virtualization of networks and services
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We present a transaction processing scheme for structured overlay networks and use it to develop a distributed Wiki application based on a relational data model. The Wiki supports rich metadata and additional indexes for navigation purposes. Ensuring consistency and durability requires handling of node failures. We mask such failures by providing high availability of nodes by constructing the overlay from replicated state machines (cell model). Atomicity is realized using two phase commit with additional support for failure detection and restoration of the transaction manager. The developed transaction processing scheme provides the application with a mixture of pessimistic, hybrid optimistic and multiversioning concurrency control techniques to minimize the impact of replication on latency and optimize for read operations. We present pseudocode of the relevant Wiki functions and evaluate the different concurrency control techniques in terms of message complexity.