Replica Control in Distributed Systems: An Asynchronous Approach

Summary: An asynchronous replica-control framework using epsilon-serializability (ESR) to allow bounded, tunable inconsistency in replicated data. ESR guarantees convergence to global serializability with read access before quiescence, and describes ESR-maintaining methods encapsulated by applications. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2608
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1991
Pagerank: 0.00010152183
Overall Rank: 1,641 | 88.75%
DOI: 10.1145/115790.115856

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Authors

1. Calton Pu (Columbia University)
2. Avraham Leff (Columbia University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{pu_sigmod91,
        title = {{Replica Control in Distributed Systems: An Asynchronous Approach}},
        author = {Pu, Calton and Leff, Avraham},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '91},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/115790.115856},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/115790.115856},
        year = {1991}
}

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754	Lazy Database Replication with Snapshot Isolation	2006	VLDB	0.00014327706
1,195	Best-Effort Cache Synchronization with Source Cooperation	2002	SIGMOD	0.00011727947
2,439	The Homeostasis Protocol: Avoiding Transaction Coordination Through Program Analysis	2015	SIGMOD	8.5785386e-05
2,676	Efficient Numerical Error Bounding for Replicated Network Services	2000	VLDB	8.2705376e-05
2,770	Relaxed Currency and Consistency: How to Say "Good Enough" in SQL	2004	SIGMOD	8.1458395e-05
3,569	Caching with "Good Enough" Currency, Consistency, and Completeness	2005	VLDB	7.3011823e-05
5,049	Cache-and-Query for Wide Area Sensor Databases	2003	SIGMOD	6.3868781e-05
5,578	Relaxed Currency Serializability for Middle-Tier Caching and Replication	2006	SIGMOD	6.1640074e-05
5,910	Replication, Consistency, and Practicality: Are These Mutually Exclusive?	1998	SIGMOD	6.0444433e-05
6,151	Replication and Consistency: Being Lazy Helps Sometimes	1997	PODS	5.9578457e-05
9,025	Tolerating Bounded Inconsistency for Increasing Concurrency in Database Systems	1992	PODS	5.329656e-05

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,127	Implementing Recoverable Requests Using Queues	1990	SIGMOD	0.00012070177
2,056	Modular Synchronization in Multiversion Databases: Version Control and Concurrency Control	1989	SIGMOD	9.2498924e-05
4,601	Updating Replicated Data During Communications Failures	1985	VLDB	6.611914e-05

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