Are quorums an alternative for data replication?

ACM Transactions on Database Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 257-294

  Jiménez Peris, Ricardo ^a,d   Patino Martinez M ^a,d   Alonso, Gustavo ^b   Kemme, Bettina ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTING CLUSTERS; DATA REPLICATION; PARALLEL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; QUORUMS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 28444478854     PISSN: 03625915     EISSN: 03625915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/937598.937601     Document Type: Article

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