A Low-Cost Checkpointing Technique for Distributed Databases

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

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275-0122, USA. jun@seas.smu.edu;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275-0122, USA. mhd@seas.smu.edu

  • Venue:
  • Distributed and Parallel Databases
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

For distributed databases, checkpointing is used to ensure an efficient way to perform global reconstruction. However, the need for global reconstruction is infrequent. Most current checkpointing approaches for distributed databases are too expensive during run time. Some of them allow the checkpointing process to run in parallel with normal transactions at the cost of more data and resource contention, which in turn causes longer response time for normal transactions. Thus, an efficient way to checkpoint distributed databases is needed to avoid degrading the system performance. This paper presents a low-cost solution, called Loosely Synchronized Local Fuzzy Checkpointing (LSLFC), to these problems. LSLFC supports global reconstruction, and our performance study shows that LSLFC has little overhead during run time.