Delivering High Availability for Inktomi Search Engines

Summary: Software-only high availability for a search backend; probabilistic uptime: some data always, all data most of the time. Lock-free, read-dominated DB using an atomic swap to replace the DB/OS stack, enabling downtime-free upgrades and migrations. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3124
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1998
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,223 | 2.76%
DOI: 10.1145/276304.276372

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Authors

1. Eric A. Brewer (Inktomi Corporation; University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{brewer_sigmod98,
        title = {{Delivering High Availability for Inktomi Search Engines}},
        author = {Brewer, Eric A.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '98},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/276304.276372},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/276304.276372},
        year = {1998}
}

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