Using optimistic atomic broadcast
in transaction processing systems
B. Kemme,
F. Pedone,
G. Alonso,
A. Schiper,
M. Wiesmann
Abstract:
Atomic broadcast primitives are
often proposed as a mechanism to allow
fault-tolerant cooperation between sites in a distributed system.
Unfortunately, the delay incurred before a message can be delivered
makes it difficult to implement high performance, scalable applications
on top of atomic broadcast primitives. Recently, a new approach has
been proposed for atomic broadcast which, based on optimistic
assumptions about the communication system, reduces the average delay
for message delivery to the application. We develop this idea further
and show how applications can take even more advantage of the
optimistic assumption by overlapping the coordination phase of the
atomic broadcast algorithm with the processing of delivered messages.
In particular, we present a replicated database architecture that
employs the new atomic broadcast primitive in such a way that
communication and transaction processing are fully overlapped,
providing high performance without relaxing transaction correctness.
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and
Data Engineering, Volume 15, No. 4, 2003. pp. 1018-1032
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