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A New Approach for Distributed Main Memory Database Systems: A Causal Commit Protocol

2004; Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers; Volume: 87; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

1745-1361

In‐Seon Lee, Heon Y. Yeom, Tae‐Soon Park,

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SUMMARY Distributed database systems require a commit process to preserve the ACID property of transactions executed on a number of system sites. With the appearance of main memory database system, the database processingtime has been reduced in the order of magnitude, since the database access does not incur any disk access at all. However, when it comes to distributed main memory database systems, the distributed commit process is still very slow since the disk logging at several sites has to precede the transaction commit. In this paper, we re-evaluate various distributed commit protocols and come up with a causal commit protocol suitable for distributed main memory database systems. To evaluate the performance of the proposed commit protocol, extensive simulation study has been performed. The simulation results confirm that the new protocol greatly reduces the time to commit the distributed transactions without any consistency problem.