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Isolation in Replicated Databases
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Data replication is a core technology to achieve fault tolerance, high availability, and increased performance. Each “logical” data item has one or more physical data copies, also called replicas, that are distributed across the database servers in the system. Replica controlis the task of translating the read and write operations on logical data items into operations on the physical data copies. When data is accessed with transactional context, replica control has to be combined with concurrency control in order to provide global isolation of concurrent transactions across the entire system. Just as centralized database systems, replicated database systems offer several levels of isolation and replica consistency. One-copy serializability was developed as a first – and very strong – correctness criterion requiring that the concurrent execution of transactions in a replicated system is equivalent to a serial execution of these...
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Kemme, B. (2018). Concurrency Control for Replicated Databases. 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_433
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