Title: Atomic commitment and resilience in grid database systems

Authors: Sushant Goel, Hema Sharda, David Taniar

Addresses: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. ' School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. ' School of Business Systems, Monash University, Australia

Abstract: Atomic Commitment Protocol (ACP) is an important part of any distributed transaction. ACPs have been proposed for homogeneous and heterogeneous distributed database management systems (DBMS). ACPs designed for these DBMS do not meet the requirement of Grid databases. Homogeneous DBMS are synchronous and tightly coupled while heterogeneous DBMS, like multi-database systems require a top layer of multi-database management system to manage distributed transactions. These ACPs either become too restrictive or need some changes in participating DBMS, which may not be acceptable in Grid Environment. In this paper, we identify requirements for Grid database systems and then propose an ACP for grid databases, Grid-Atomic Commitment Protocol (Grid-ACP). We then extend Grid-ACP to handle failure of database sites.

Keywords: grid computing; data grid; recovery protocols; distributed database management; distributed DBMS; atomic commit protocols; failure recovery; resilient database systems; grid database systems.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGUC.2005.007060

International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, 2005 Vol.1 No.1, pp.46 - 60

Published online: 16 May 2005 *

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