Concurrency control and recovery in database systems
Concurrency control and recovery in database systems
Implementing recoverable requests using queues
SIGMOD '90 Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Unreliable failure detectors for reliable distributed systems
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Clusters for high availability: a primer of HP-UX solutions
Clusters for high availability: a primer of HP-UX solutions
Efficient transparent application recovery in client-server information systems
SIGMOD '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
System support for object groups
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Client-Access Protocols for Replicated Services
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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Reliable messages and connection establishment
Distributed systems (2nd Ed.)
Implementing E-Transactions with Asynchronous Replication
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Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques
Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques
Reducing the Blocking in Two-Phase Commit Protocol Employing Backup Sites
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Group-Enhanced Remote Method Invocations
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Adding group communication and fault-tolerance to CORBA
COOTS'95 Proceedings of the USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies on USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies (COOTS)
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Unification of Transactions and Replication in Three-Tier Architectures Based on CORBA
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Applied computing
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Ensuring e-Transaction with Asynchronous and Uncoordinated Application Server Replicas
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Replica placement for high availability in distributed stream processing systems
Proceedings of the second international conference on Distributed event-based systems
Byzantine Fault Tolerant Coordination for Web Services Atomic Transactions
ICSOC '07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Service-Oriented Computing
Showing correctness of a replication algorithm in a component based system
IDEAS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international symposium on Database engineering & applications
Consistent and scalable cache replication for multi-tier J2EE applications
Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 2007 International Conference on Middleware
Consistent and scalable cache replication for multi-tier J2EE applications
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The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
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WISE'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Web Information Systems
Ensuring e-transaction through a lightweight protocol for centralized back-end database
ISPA'04 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications
Transaction manager failover: a case study using JBOSS application server
OTM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: AWeSOMe, CAMS, COMINF, IS, KSinBIT, MIOS-CIAO, MONET - Volume Part II
Business Rule Management for Enterprise Information Systems
Information Resources Management Journal
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A three-tier application is organized as three layers: human users interact with front-end clients (e.g., browsers), middle-tier application servers (e.g., Web servers) contain the business logic of the application, and perform transactions against back-end databases. Although three-tier applications are becoming mainstream, they usually fail to provide sufficient reliability guarantees to the users. Usually, replication and transaction-processing techniques are applied to specific parts of the application, but their combination does not provide end-to-end reliability. The aim of this paper is to provide a precise specification of a desirable, yet realistic, end-to-end reliability contract in three-tier applications. We present the specification in the form of the Exactly-Once Transaction (e-Transaction) abstraction: an abstraction that encompasses both safety and liveness properties in three-tier environments. We give an example implementation of that abstraction and point out alternative implementations and tradeoffs.