High availability is not enough [distributed systems]

Author

Triantafillou, Peter

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, BC, Canada

fYear

1992

fDate

12-13 Nov 1992

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

43

Abstract

The author mainly concentrates on transactional distributed systems. Most previous research on replication in such environments has concentrated in employing replication to achieve high availability. The position is that high availability along is not enough. First, it is important to consider the cost of providing high availability through replication. Second, one must exploit the potential of replication as a means of improving performance. Then performance issues (in addition to availability) in which one is mostly interested are: transaction latency, bottlenecks and throughput, and scalability (in particular as it affects the former issues). The author briefly outlines his related research efforts which can be classified in the following areas: replication-control protocols, recovery strategies, and studying availability in large-scale distributed systems

Keywords

distributed databases; protocols; system recovery; large-scale distributed systems; performance issues; protocols; recovery strategies; replication; scalability; throughput; transaction latency; transactional distributed systems; Access protocols; Availability; Collaboration; Content addressable storage; Costs; Delay; Large-scale systems; Multidimensional systems; Throughput; Voting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management of Replicated Data, 1992., Second Workshop on the

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3170-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MRD.1992.242621

Filename

242621