An Analysis of Weakly Consistent Replication Systems in an Active Distributed Network
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.
Keywords: Weakly consistent replication systems, distributed networks, Anti-Entropy protocol, Anti-Entropy time
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