201 research outputs found

    A categorization scheme for concurrency control protocols in distributed databases

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    The problem of concurrency control in distributed databases is very complex. As a result, a great number of control algorithms have been proposed in recent years. This research is aimed at the development of a viable categorization scheme for these various algorithms. The scheme is based on the theoretical concept of serializability, but is qualitative in nature. An important class of serializable execution sequences, conflict-preserving-serializable, leads to the identification of fundamental attributes common to all algorithms included in this study. These attributes serve as the underlying philosophy for the categorization scheme. Combined with the two logical approaches of prevention and correction of nonserializability, the result is a flexible and extensive categorization scheme which accounts for all algorithms studied and suggests the possibility of new algorithms

    A comparative study of concurrency control algorithms for distributed databases

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    The declining cost of computer hardware and the increasing data processing needs of geographically dispersed organizations have led to substantial interest in distributed data management. These characteristics have led to reconsider the design of centralized databases. Distributed databases have appeared as a result of those considerations. A number of advantages result from having duplicate copies of data in a distributed databases. Some of these advantages are: increased data accesibility, more responsive data access, higher reliability, and load sharing. These and other benefits must be balanced against the additional cost and complexity introduced in doing so. This thesis considers the problem of concurrency control of multiple copy databases. Several synchronization techniques are mentioned and a few algorithms for concurrency control are evaluated and compared

    Schema architecture and their relationships to transaction processing in distributed database systems

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    We discuss the different types of schema architectures which could be supported by distributed database systems, making a clear distinction between logical, physical, and federated distribution. We elaborate on the additional mapping information required in architecture based on logical distribution in order to support retrieval as well as update operations. We illustrate the problems in schema integration and data integration in multidatabase systems and discuss their impact on query processing. Finally, we discuss different issues relevant to the cooperation (or noncooperation) of local database systems in a heterogeneous multidatabase system and their relationship to the schema architecture and transaction processing

    ElasTraS: An Elastic Transactional Data Store in the Cloud

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    Over the last couple of years, "Cloud Computing" or "Elastic Computing" has emerged as a compelling and successful paradigm for internet scale computing. One of the major contributing factors to this success is the elasticity of resources. In spite of the elasticity provided by the infrastructure and the scalable design of the applications, the elephant (or the underlying database), which drives most of these web-based applications, is not very elastic and scalable, and hence limits scalability. In this paper, we propose ElasTraS which addresses this issue of scalability and elasticity of the data store in a cloud computing environment to leverage from the elastic nature of the underlying infrastructure, while providing scalable transactional data access. This paper aims at providing the design of a system in progress, highlighting the major design choices, analyzing the different guarantees provided by the system, and identifying several important challenges for the research community striving for computing in the cloud.Comment: 5 Pages, In Proc. of USENIX HotCloud 200

    Prestasi Kaedah Penilaian Pertanyaan Dalam Pangkalan Data Teragih

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    Tesis ini membincangkan tentang kajian kaedah-kaedah penilaian pertanyaan yang dipilih di dalam pangkalan data teragih (PDT). PDT adalah gabungan dua konsep teknologi iaitu pangkalan data dan sistem rangkaian komunikasi. Pertanyaan (query) yang diberi kepada PDT adalah dalam bentuk ungkapan kalkulus yang akan diterima oleh pemproses pertanyaan (query processor) dan diterjemahkan melalui empat aras pemprosesan iaitu pemecahan pertanyaan, penempatan data, pengoptimuman pertanyaan dan pengoptimuman setempat. Empat kaedah penilaian pertanyaan yang dipilih di dalam kajian ini ialah Hill-Climbing, SDD-l, AHY dan Sistem R * . Setiap kaedah mempunyai penyelesaian tersendiri yang melibatka

    Nonblocking commit protocols

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    Database recovery

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    Recovery techniques are an important aspect of database systems. They are essential to ensure that data integrity is maintained after any type of failure occurs. The recovery mechanism must be designed so that the availability and performance of the system are not unacceptably impacted by the recovery algorithms running during normal execution. On the other hand, enough information must be stored so that the database can be restored or transactions backed out in a reasonable amount of time. Concepts, techniques, and problems associated with database recovery will be presented in this thesis. The recovery issues for both centralized and distributed systems will be discussed, along with the tradeoffs of different recovery tools. The database recovery schemes in IMS/VS, DB2 and SDD-1 will be described to show approaches in existing systems
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