Improving the Scalability of Fault-Tolerant Database Clusters: Early Results


R. Jiménez-Peris, M. Patiño-Martínez, B. Kemme, G. Alonso
Abstract:
Replication has become a central element in modern information systems playing a dual role: increase availability and enhance scalability. Unfortunately, most existing protocols increase availability at the cost of scalability. This paper presents architecture, implementation and performance of a middleware based replication tool that provides both availability and better scalability than existing systems. Main characteristics are the usage of specialized broadcast primitives and efficient data propagation.
Proc. of the IEEE 22nd Int. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems 2002, ICDCS'02. Vienna, Austria. July 2002.

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