Supporting consistent updates in replicated multidatabase systems

Weimin Du*, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Won Kim, Omran Bukhres

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Abstract

Replication is useful in multidatabase systems (MDBSs) because, as in traditional distributed database systems, it increases data availability in the presence of failures and decreases data retrieval costs by reading local or close copies of data. Concurrency control, however, is more difficult in replicated MDBSs than in ordinary distributed database systems. This is the case not only because local concurrency controllers may schedule global transactions inconsistently, but also because local transactions (at different sites) may access the same replicated data. In this article, we propose a decentralized concurrency control protocol for a replicated MDBS. The proposed strategy supports prompt and consistent updates of replicated data by both local and global applications without a central coordinator.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)215-241
Number of pages27
JournalVLDB Journal
Volume2
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 1993
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Multidatabases
  • concurrency control
  • replica control
  • replicated data management
  • resolvable conflicts
  • serializability

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