Maintaining availability in partitioned replicated databases

  • Authors:
  • A. El Abbadi;S. Toueg

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of California, Santa Barbara;Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

In a replicated database, a data item may have copies residing on several sites. A replica control protocol is necessary to ensure that data items with several copies behave as if they consist of a single copy, as far as users can tell. We describe a new replica control protocol that allows the accessing of data in spite of site failures and network partitioning. This protocol provides the database designer with a large degree of flexibility in deciding the degree of data availability, as well as the cost of accessing data.