The Dangers of Replication and a Solution
Summary: Update-anywhere replication becomes unstable as workload scales; 10x nodes/traffic yields 1000x deadlocks and reconciliations. A master-copy, two-tier algorithm lets mobile/disconnected clients propose tentative updates later applied to the master; commutative updates avoid instability, per a simple analytic model. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Jim Gray (Microsoft)
- 2. Pat Helland (Microsoft)
- 3. Patrick O'Neil (University of Massachusetts Boston)
- 4. Dennis Shasha (New York University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{gray_sigmod96,
title = {{The Dangers of Replication and a Solution}},
author = {Gray, Jim and Helland, Pat and O'Neil, Patrick and Shasha, Dennis},
series = {{SIGMOD} '96},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/233269.233330},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/233269.233330},
year = {1996}
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels | 1995 | SIGMOD | 0.00058781151 |
| 810 | The Datacycle Architecture for Very High Throughput Database Systems | 1987 | SIGMOD | 0.00013757316 |
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