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12th Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC'06)
A Pragmatic Protocol for Database Replication in Interconnected Clusters
Riverside, California
December 18-December 20
ISBN: 0-7695-2724-8
J. Grov, U. Oslo
L. Soares, U. Minho
A. Jr. Correia, U. Minho
J. Pereira, U. Minho
R. Oliveira, U. Minho
F. Pedone, U. Lugano
Multi-master update everywhere database replication, as achieved by protocols based on group communication such as DBSM and Postgres-R, addresses both performance and availability. By scaling it to wide area networks, one could save costly bandwidth and avoid large round-trips to a distant master server. Also, by ensuring that updates are safely stored at a remote site within transaction boundaries, disaster recovery is guaranteed. Unfortunately, scaling existing cluster based replication protocols is troublesome. In this paper we present a database replication protocol based on group communication that targets interconnected clusters. In contrast with previous proposals, it uses a separate multicast group for each cluster and thus does not impose any additional requirements on group communication, easing implementation and deployment in a real setting. Nonetheless, the protocol ensures one-copy equivalence while allowing all sites to execute update transactions. Experimental evaluation using the workload of the industry standard TPC-C benchmark confirms the advantages of the approach.
Citation:
J. Grov, L. Soares, A. Jr. Correia, J. Pereira, R. Oliveira, F. Pedone, "A Pragmatic Protocol for Database Replication in Interconnected Clusters," prdc, pp.230-237, 12th Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC'06), 2006
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