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EDBT 2004: Advances in Database Technology - EDBT 2004 pp 165–182Cite as

Beyond 1-Safety and 2-Safety for Replicated Databases: Group-Safety

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In this paper, we study the safety guarantees of group communication-based database replication techniques. We show that there is a model mismatch between group communication and database, and because of this, classical group communication systems cannot be used to build 2-safe database replication. We propose a new group communication primitive called end-to-end atomic broadcast that solves the problem, i.e., can be used to implement 2-safe database replication. We also introduce a new safety criterion, called group-safety, that has advantages both over 1-safety and 2-safety. Experimental results show the gain of efficiency of group-safety over lazy replication, which ensures only 1-safety.

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    Elisa Bertino

  2. Laboratory of Distributed Multimedia Information Systems and Applications, Technical University of Crete (MUSIC/TUC) Chania, 73100, Crete, Greece

    Stavros Christodoulakis

  3. Institute of Computer Science, FO.R.T.H., Vassilika Vouton, P.O. Box 1385, GR 71110, Heraklion, Greece

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  5. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

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Wiesmann, M., Schiper, A. (2004). Beyond 1-Safety and 2-Safety for Replicated Databases: Group-Safety. In: Bertino, E., et al. Advances in Database Technology - EDBT 2004. EDBT 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2992. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24741-8_11

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