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Middleware Support for Database Replication and Caching

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Definition

Database replication is a technique that aims at providing higher availability and performance than a single RDBMS. A database replication middleware implements a number of replication algorithms on top of existing RDBMS. Features provided by the replication middleware include load balancing, caching, and fault tolerance.

Historical Background

Database replication is a well-known mechanism for performance scaling and availability of databases across a wide range of requirements. Limitations of 2-phase commit and synchronous replication have been pointed out early on by Gray et al. [7]. Since then, research on middleware-based replication addresses these issues and tries to provide solutions for better performance and availability while maintaining consistency guarantees for applications.

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Database replication is a wide area of research that encompasses multiple architectures and possible designs. This entry does not address in-core database replication, where the...

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  1. EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Emmanuel Cecchet

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Dept. of Elec. and Comp. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Cristiana Amza

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Cecchet, E. (2018). Middleware Support for Database Replication and Caching. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1538

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