Fault diversity among off-the-shelf SQL database servers

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 389-398

  Gashi, Ilir ^a   Popov, Peter ^a   Strigini, Lorenzo ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; REDUNDANCY; USER INTERFACES;

FAILURE RATES; FAULT DIVERSITY; FAULT-TOLERANT SERVERS; OFF-THE-SHELF (OTS) PRODUCTS;

SERVERS;

EID: 4544339284     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/dsn.2004.1311908     Document Type: Conference Paper

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