Agent-Based Fault Tolerance Mechanism for Distributed Key-Value Database

Distributed key-value database is widely used in Web 2.0 applications and cloud computing environments. It overcomes the weak performance and bad scalability of traditional relational database. But fault in distributed system will lead to errors, then the high performance is useless. So we should build a fault tolerance mechanism. On the other hand, in many application scenarios, transactional operations are inevitable. Some existing key-value databases utilize two-phase commit protocol or optimistic concurrency control in transaction processing. But the problems are sing-node failure and high overhead in protocol processing. Meanwhile, users´ programming becomes more error-prone. This paper designs a fault tolerance and recovery mechanism on DStageDB, which is a distributed key-value database. We design an agent-based transaction processing mechanism. The transaction processing speed is improved and less user intervention is needed.