Reliability and Availability Properties of Distributed Database Systems

Author

Domaschka, Jorg ; Hauser, Christopher B. ; Erb, Benjamin

Author_Institution

Inst. of Inf. Resource Manage., Ulm Univ., Ulm, Germany

fYear

2014

fDate

1-5 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

226

Lastpage

233

Abstract

Distributed database systems represent an essential component of modern enterprise application architectures. If the overall application needs to provide reliability and availability, the database has to guarantee these properties as well. Entailing non-functional database features such as replication, consistency, conflict management, and partitioning represent subsequent challenges for successfully designing and operating an available and reliable database system. In this document, we identify why these concepts are important for databases and classify their design options. Moreover, we survey how eleven modern database systems implement these reliability and availability properties.

Keywords

distributed databases; availability property; conflict management feature; consistency feature; database design option; distributed database systems; enterprise application architecture; nonfunctional database features; partitioning feature; reliability property; replication feature; Availability; Database systems; Distributed databases; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Reliability; availability; consistency; database systems; partitioning; replication; scalability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC), 2014 IEEE 18th International

Conference_Location

Ulm

ISSN

1541-7719

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDOC.2014.38

Filename

6972071