Updating Replicated Data During Communications Failures

Summary: A disconnected-update replication scheme lets every site accept local writes and incorporate remote updates opportunistically despite communication failures. Efficient reconciliation exploits application-level update semantics, enabling availability without requiring continuous coordination. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h9e0bc90a17d7c72a
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1985
Pagerank: 6.4615521e-05
Overall Rank: 4,699 | 68.42%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Barbara T. Blaustein (Computer Corporation of America)
2. Charles W. Kaufman (Computer Corporation of America)

BibTeX Citation

@article{blaustein_vldb85,
        title = {{Updating Replicated Data During Communications Failures}},
        author = {Blaustein, Barbara T. and Kaufman, Charles W.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '85},
        year = {1985}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,670	Replica Control in Distributed Systems: An Asynchronous Approach	1991	SIGMOD	9.9284053e-05
6,052	Semantics Based Transaction Management Techniques for Replicated Data	1988	SIGMOD	5.9006432e-05
6,679	Using History Information to Process Delayed Database Updates	1986	VLDB	5.7097631e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,215	Sacrificing Serializability to Attain High Availability of Data in an Unreliable Network	1982	PODS	0.00011488218
4,940	Increasing Availability in Partitioned Database Systems (extended abstract)	1984	PODS	6.3432309e-05

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