Replication, Consistency, and Practicality: Are These Mutually Exclusive?

Summary: Study compares three replication protocols avoiding 2PC: global locking, pessimistic, and optimistic replication graphs with lazy updates. Under contention, replication-graph protocols cut aborts from ~70–80% to ~10%, but degrade near saturation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3100
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 6.0444433e-05
Overall Rank: 5,910 | 59.46%
DOI: 10.1145/276304.276347

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Authors

1. Yuri Breitbart (AT&T)
2. Henry F. Korth (AT&T)
3. Avishai Wool (AT&T)
4. Todd Anderson (University of Kentucky)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{breitbart_sigmod98,
        title = {{Replication, Consistency, and Practicality: Are These Mutually Exclusive?}},
        author = {Breitbart, Yuri and Korth, Henry F. and Wool, Avishai and Anderson, Todd},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '98},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/276304.276347},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/276304.276347},
        year = {1998}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,105	FlashLogging: Exploiting Flash Devices for Synchronous Logging Performance	2009	SIGMOD	0.00012151254
1,754	Middleware based Data Replication providing Snapshot Isolation	2005	SIGMOD	9.8237803e-05
2,484	Update Propagation Protocols For Replicated Databases	1999	SIGMOD	8.5147322e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
164	The Dangers of Replication and a Solution	1996	SIGMOD	0.00027698879
1,641	Replica Control in Distributed Systems: An Asynchronous Approach	1991	SIGMOD	0.00010152183
3,059	Epidemic Algorithms in Replicated Databases (Extended Abstract)	1997	PODS	7.8063437e-05
6,151	Replication and Consistency: Being Lazy Helps Sometimes	1997	PODS	5.9578457e-05

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