Replication Theory and Practice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Charron-Bost, Bernadette (Editor), Pedone, Fernando (Editor), Schiper, André (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5959
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Computer programming.; Data encryption (Computer science).; Computers.; Database management.; Computer Science.; Programming Techniques.; Data Encryption.; Computer Communication Networks.; Computer Science, general.; Models and Principles.; Database Management.

Replication is a topic of interest in the distributed computing, distributed systems, and database communities. Although these communities have traditionally looked at replication from different viewpoints and with different goals (e.g., performance versus fault tolerance), recent developments have...

Table of Contents:

• Consistency Models for Replicated Data
• Replication Techniques for Availability
• Modular Approach to Replication for Availability
• Stumbling over Consensus Research: Misunderstandings and Issues
• Replicating for Performance: Case Studies
• A History of the Virtual Synchrony Replication Model
• From Viewstamped Replication to Byzantine Fault Tolerance
• Implementing Trustworthy Services Using Replicated State Machines
• State Machine Replication with Byzantine Faults
• Selected Results from the Latest Decade of Quorum Systems Research
• From Object Replication to Database Replication
• Database Replication: A Tutorial
• Practical Database Replication.