RemusDB: Transparent high availability for database systems

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 737-748

  Minhas, Umar Farooq ^a   Rajagopalan, Shriram ^b   Cully, Brendan ^b   Aboulnaga, Ashraf ^a   Salem, Kenneth ^a   Warfield, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; BENCHMARKING;

CUSTOMISATION; DATABASE WORKLOAD; FAILOVER; HIGH AVAILABILITY; MACHINE STATE; OPTIMISATIONS; PERFORMANCE; STATE REPLICATIONS; SYSTEM DATABASE; VIRTUALIZATION LAYERS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84858761980     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14778/3402707.3402714     Document Type: Conference Paper

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