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Replication in Multitier Architectures

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Application server clustering; Cloud computing; Cluster replication; Scalable replication; Scale out; SOA replication

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Modern middleware systems are commonly used in multi-tier architectures to enable separation of concerns. For each tier, a specific component container is provided, tailored to its mission, web interface, business logic, or persistent storage. Data consistency across tiers is guaranteed by means of transactions. This entry focuses on the main three tiers: web, application server, and database tiers.

Middleware systems are at the core of enterprise information systems. For this reason they require high levels of availability and scalability. Replication is the main technique to achieve these two properties. First middleware replication approaches addressed the replication of individual tiers and focused initially on providing availability and later, on scalability. However, an integral approach is needed to provide availability and scalability of...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Distributed Systems Lab, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Ricardo Jiménez-Peris & Marta Patiño-Martínez

  2. ETSI Informáticos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain

    Marta Patiño-Martínez

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  1. Ricardo Jiménez-Peris
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Correspondence to Ricardo Jiménez-Peris .

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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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Jiménez-Peris, R., Patiño-Martínez, M. (2018). Replication in Multitier Architectures. 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_1543

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