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An efficient, fault-tolerant protocol for replicated data management

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Fault-Tolerant Distributed Computing

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A data management protocol for executing transactions on a replicated database is presented. The protocol ensures one-copy serializability. i.e., the concurrent execution of transactions on a replicated database is equivalent to some serial execution of the same transactions on a non-replicated database. The protocol tolerates a large class of failures, including: processor and communication link crashes, partitioning of the communication network, lost messages, and slow responses of processors and communication links. Processor and link recoveries are also handled. The protocol implements the reading of a replicated object efficiently by reading the nearest available copy of the object. When reads outnumber writes, the protocol performs better than other known protocols.

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  1. Teknekron Software Systems, Palo Alto, California

    Dale Skeen

  2. Computer Science Department, University of California, Santa Barbara

    Amr El Abbadi

  3. IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California

    Flaviu Cristian

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Barbara Simons Alfred Spector

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Skeen, D., Abbadi, A.E., Cristian, F. (1990). An efficient, fault-tolerant protocol for replicated data management. In: Simons, B., Spector, A. (eds) Fault-Tolerant Distributed Computing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 448. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0042334

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