A robust protocol for parallel join operation in distributed data bases

  • Authors:
  • S. Bandyopadhyay;A. Sengupta

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ont N9B 3P4, CANADA;Dept of Computer Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

  • Venue:
  • DPDS '88 Proceedings of the first international symposium on Databases in parallel and distributed systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Fault tolerant distributed databases use replicated data(e.g., record or relation) to handle failures of one or more nodes in a computer network. Efficient and economic access strategies for such data bases have not been investigated. In this paper, the binary hypercube, a popular model for fault tolerant interconnection networks, has been studied. It has been shown that, for a local area network based on a binary hypercube, having 2r nodes where every data is replicated r times, in the absence of faults, any query involving an arbitrary sequence of joins R1 @@@@ R2 @@@@ … @@@@ Rn, n ≤ r, may be performed by repeatedly executing joins in a distributed fashion using n node disjoint paths from n/2 distinct sites of database operations to n arbitrary sites containing a target relation each. This protocol also solves the problem of materialization of relations. In the presence of up to r-2 faults, the protocol still guarantees N node disjoint paths to arbitrary sites. The value of N is determined by the number of faulty nodes.