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Coordination Avoidance

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Coordination avoidance denotes a class of distributed system methods that minimize the amount of coordination between nodes while maintaining the integrity of the application.

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In many data management systems, data and processing are replicated or distributed across nodes (Kemme et al. 2010; Bernstein and Goodman 1981). This replication and distribution increase the levels of fault tolerance and availability. However, they introduce a coordination cost to maintain the integrity of applications. Since nodes are processing data for the same application simultaneously, there is the possibility of conflicting operations that may overwrite the work of other nodes. To overcome this problem, coordination and synchronization protocols have been developed to ensure the integrity of data. Typically, the coordination protocols strive to ensure a guarantee of correctness, such as serializability (Bernstein et al. 1987) and linearizability (Herlihy and Wing 1990). These are...

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    Faisal Nawab

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Nawab, F. (2019). Coordination Avoidance. In: Sakr, S., Zomaya, A.Y. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77525-8_182

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