Abstract
Data replication is a primary means to achieve fault tolerance in distributed systems. Data integrity is one of the correctness criteria of data-centric distributed systems. If data integrity needs to be strictly maintained even in the presence of network partitions, the system becomes (partially) unavailable since no potentially conflicting updates are allowed on replicas in different partitions. Availability can be enhanced if data integrity can be temporarily relaxed during degraded situations. Thus, data integrity can be balanced with availability.
In this paper, we contribute with a new replication protocol based on traditional quorum consensus (voting) that allows the configuration of this trade-off. The key idea of our Adaptive Voting protocol is to allow non-critical operations (that cannot violate critical constraints) even if no quorum exists. Since this might impose replica conflicts and data integrity violations, different reconciliation policies are needed to re-establish correctness at repair time. An availability analysis and an experimental evaluation show that Adaptive Voting provides better availability than traditional voting if (i) some data integrity constraints of the system are relaxable and (ii) reconciliation time is shorter than degradation time.
An erratum to this chapter can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11915072_109.
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Osrael, J., Froihofer, L., Gladt, M., Goeschka, K.M. (2006). Adaptive Voting for Balancing Data Integrity with Availability. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z., Herrero, P. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops. OTM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4278. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11915072_56
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