An Analysis of Weakly Consistent Replication Systems in an Active Distributed Network
Amit B. Chougule, Pravin Ghewari · 2011
With the sudden increase in heterogeneity and distribution of data in wide-area networks, more flexible, efficient and autonomous approaches for management and data distribution are needed. In recent years, the proliferation of inter-networks and distributed applications has increased the demand for geographically-distributed replicated databases. The architecture of Bayou provides features that address the needs of database storage of world-wide applications. Key is the use of weak consistency replication among autonomous machines. The protocol carries out pair wise reconciliation between the replicas. It enables replica convergence towards consistency. The paper presents an analysis of weakly consistent replication system in an active distributed network.