Skip graphs

  • Authors:
  • James Aspnes;Gauri Shah

  • Affiliations:
  • Yale University, New Haven, CT;Yale University, New Haven, CT

  • Venue:
  • SODA '03 Proceedings of the fourteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Skip graphs are a novel distributed data structure, based on skip lists, that provide the full functionality of a balanced tree in a distributed system where elements are stored in separate nodes that may fail at any time. They are designed for use in searching peer-to-peer networks, and by providing the ability to perform queries based on key ordering, they improve on existing search tools that provide only hash table functionality. Unlike skip lists or other tree data structures, skip graphs are highly resilient, tolerating a large fraction of failed nodes without losing connectivity. In addition, constructing, inserting new elements into, searching a skip graph and detecting and repairing errors in the data structure introduced by node failures can be done using simple and straight-forward algorithms.