Fault tolerance in three-tier applications: focusing on the database tier

Author

Vaysburd, Alexey

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol., Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

322

Lastpage

327

Abstract

Discusses the issues involved in providing an integrated fault tolerance solution to enterprise applications with a distributed three-tier architecture. We examine end-to-end fault tolerance requirements for interactions between the tiers and describe available solutions. We perform a detailed assessment of fault tolerance technologies that are available for the database tier, which poses most challenging reliability and high-availability problems. In particular, we discuss and compare the tradeoffs made in commercial database systems between different aspects of fault tolerance

Keywords

business data processing; distributed databases; software architecture; software fault tolerance; availability; commercial database systems; database tier; distributed three-tier architecture; end-to-end fault tolerance requirements; enterprise applications; integrated fault tolerance solution; reliability; tier interactions; tradeoffs; Access protocols; Databases; Electrical capacitance tomography; Fault tolerance; Identity-based encryption; Logic; Network servers; Paper technology; User interfaces; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reliable Distributed Systems, 1999. Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Lausanne

ISSN

1060-9857

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0290-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RELDIS.1999.805117

Filename

805117