A Survey of Distributed Database Checkpointing

  • Authors:
  • Jun-Lin Lin;Margaret H. Dunham

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275. E-mail: {jun,mhd}@seas.smu.edu;CNPTIA / EMBRAPA - PO Box 6041 - 13083-970 Campinas SP - BRAZIL. E-mail: mario@cnptia.embrapa.br

  • Venue:
  • Distributed and Parallel Databases
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Checkpointing a database is a vital technique to reduce the recoverytime in the presence of a failure. For distributed databases,checkpointing also provides an efficient way to perform globalreconstruction. In this paper, we survey andclassify previous approaches for checkpointing a distributed database.Since the need for global reconstruction isinfrequent in most distributed databases,a less restrictive and less resource-consuming approach tocheckpoint distributed databases in an integrated distributed databasesystem is recommended over a transaction consistent checkpoint approach.For a federated or multidatabase system, any type of global consistentcheckpoint is difficult to achieve without violating local autonomy.