Things every update replication customer should know

Summary: Asynchronous replication lacks a global serialization, allowing updates to race and eroding ACID isolation. Many commercial systems lack a serial history—crucial for audits—so customers should demand serializable replication and auditing guarantees. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h90ce2c4fe4dbed6c
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1995
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Overall Rank: 14,567 | 2.06%
DOI: 10.1145/223784.223865

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1. Rob Goldring (IBM)

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@inproceedings{goldring_sigmod95,
        title = {{Things every update replication customer should know}},
        author = {Goldring, Rob},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '95},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/223784.223865},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/223784.223865},
        year = {1995}
}

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