%0 Conference Paper
%B Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA)
%D 2001
%T Partial replication in the database state machine
%A António Luis Sousa
%A Fernando Pedone
%A Rui Oliveira
%A Francisco Moura
%C Cambridge, United Kingdom
%I IEEE
%R 10.1109/NCA.2001.962546
%X <p>This paper investigates the use of partial replication in the Database State Machine approach introduced ear- lier for fully replicated databases. It builds on the or- der and atomicity properties of group communication primitives to achieve strong consistency and proposes two new abstractions: Resilient Atomic Commit and Fast Atomic Broadcast. Even with atomic broadcast, partial replication re- quires a termination protocol such as atomic commit to ensure transaction atomicity. With Resilient Atomic Commit our termination protocol allows the commit of a transaction despite the failure of some of the par- ticipants. Preliminary performance studies suggest that the additional cost of supporting partial replica- tion can be mitigated through the use of Fast Atomic Broadcast.</p>
%8 February
%> https://haslab.uminho.pt/sites/default/files/rco/files/partial_replication.pdf