Logging and Recovery in a Highly Concurrent Database
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Keen, John S.
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This report addresses the problem of fault tolerance to system failures for database systems that are to run on highly concurrent computers. It assumes that, in general, an application may have a wide distribution in the lifetimes of its transactions. Logging remains the method of choice for ensuring fault tolerance. Generational garbage collection techniques manage the limited disk space reserved for log information; this technique does not require periodic checkpoints and is well suited for applications with a broad range of transaction lifetimes. An arbitrarily large collection of parallel log streams provide the necessary disk bandwidth.
Date issued
1994-06-01Other identifiers
AITR-1492
Series/Report no.
AITR-1492
Keywords
databases, fault tolerance, transaction processing, sconcurrency, logging and recovery