Enhancing availability in distributed real-time databases

  • Authors:
  • Kwei-Jay Lin;Ming-Ju Lin

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMOD Record - Special Issue on Real-Time Database Systems
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

One of the issues in distributed databases is to maintain the data consistency when a database is replicated for higher availability. In a real-time database system, availability may be more important than consistency since a result must be produced before a deadline. We propose techniques to increase the availability in a partitioned real-time database. We also suggest that a transaction may execute even when the most up-to-date information is not available or when a serializable execution cannot be guaranteed. As long as data integrity is maintained, serializable execution may not be necessary.